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pagetoid

pagetoid adjective: exhibiting an upward spread of melanocytes into the epidermis.

Adjective

pagetoid (comparative more pagetoid, superlative most pagetoid)

  1. Exhibiting an upward spread of melanocytes into the epidermis.
    • pagetoid Bowen's disease

Forms of pagetoid

comparativemore pagetoid
superlativemost pagetoid

Origin of pagetoid

From Paget + -oid, with reference to seeming like Paget's disease, after Sir James Paget (1814–1899); morphologically parallel with other examples such as parkinsonoid.

Questions about pagetoid

What does pagetoid mean?
Pagetoid means exhibiting an upward spread of melanocytes into the epidermis.
What part of speech is pagetoid?
Pagetoid is an adjective.

Words near pagetoid in the dictionary

  1. Paget's disease of the nipple
  2. Paget-Schroetter disease
  3. pagetable
  4. pagetables
  5. pagetic
  6. pagetoid
  7. Pagett
  8. Pagetts
  9. pageturner
  10. pageturners
  11. pageview

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