Associations to the word «Acanthosis»
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Wiktionary
ACANTHOSIS, noun. (medicine) A benign abnormal thickening of the stratum spinosum, or prickle cell, layer of the epidermis.[First attested in the late 19th century.]
ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS, noun. (pathology) A skin disease, sometimes associated with cancer, exhibiting grey or black wart-like growths near the major joints.
Dictionary definition
ACANTHOSIS, noun. An abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis).
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.