See Also: Hutchinson's freckle(medicine)
hutchinson's melanotic freckle(medicine)
freckle(dictionary)
Freckle(health)
freckle(dictionary)
freckle(medicine)
Hutchinson(dictionary)
Hutchinson's teeth(medicine)
Hutchinson's facies(medicine)
Hutchinson Clinic(health)

graben (iou) and Hutchinson's freckle (medicine)


graben (iou)



graben noun. Pl. -s, same. L19.
[German, orig. = ditch.]
Geology. A depression in the earth's surface between faults, a rift valley.

Hutchinson's freckle (medicine)


Hutchinson's freckle -->
lentigo maligna


A brown or black mottled, irregularly outlined, slowly enlarging lesion resembling a lentigo in which there are increased numbers of scattered atypical melanocytes in the epidermis, usually occurring on the face of older persons; after many years the dermis may be invaded and the lesion is then termed lentigo maligna melanoma.

Synonym: Hutchinson's freckle, melanotic freckle.