This page provides a list of the 765 glossary terms commonly used on dermoscopedia. There is also an index of terms.
- See also the the main page and the index of authors.
Glossary Term | Glossary Term Description |
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2 step algorithm | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
3Gen | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
3gen | Name of the company manufacturing dermlite devices |
ABCD | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
AHM | amelanotic/hypomelanotic melanoma |
AK | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Abcd | Assymetry, border irregularity, colos, dermoscopy structures |
Acne rosacea | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Acral | Pertaining to peripheral body parts, especially hands, feet, fingers, and toes. |
Acral melanoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Acro-lentiginous melanoma | Melanoma located on palms soles or nail apparatus |
Actinic keratosis | Actinic keratosis (also called solar keratosis and senile keratosis; abbreviated as AK) is a pre-cancerous patch of thick, scaly, or crusty skin. |
Age | process of becoming older |
Ai | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Ak | Abbreviation for actinic keratosis also called solar keratosis and senile keratosis which is a pre-cancerous patch of thick, scaly, or crusty skin. |
Algorithm | In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm (Listeni/ˈælɡərɪðəm/ AL-gə-ri-dhəm) is a self-contained sequence of actions to be performed. Algorithms can perform calculation, data processing and automated reasoning tasks. |
Alopecia | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Alopecia areata | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Amelanotic melanoma | type of skin cancer in which the cells do not make melanin |
Analytic approach | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Analytic terminology, analytic term | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Anatomy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Androgenetic alopecia | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Andronenetic alopecia | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Anginoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Angiokeratoma | is a benign cutaneous lesion of capillaries, resulting in small marks of red to blue color and characterized by hyperkeratosis |
Angioma | Angiomas are benign tumors derived from cells of the vascular or lymphatic vessel walls (endothelium) or derived from cells of the tissues surrounding these vessels.[1][2] Angiomas are a frequent occurrence as patients age, but they might be an indicator of systemic problems such as liver disease. They are not commonly associated with malignancy. |
Angioma serpiginosum | is a skin condition in which there are small blood vessels near the skin surface. It presents as small red dots (puncta) that cluster together to form a linear or snake-like array (serpiginous pattern) or ring-shaped (gyrate) pattern. |
Angioma, hemangioma, kaposi sarcoma, angiokeratoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Angiosarcoma | is a cancer of the inner lining of blood vessels, and it can occur in any area of the body. The disease most commonly occurs in the skin, breast, liver, spleen, and deep tissue. |
Angulated | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Angulated lines | Syn: polygons, zig-zag pattern Gray-brown lines that are connected at an angle or coalescing to form polygons |
Angulated lines (polygons - zig-zag pattern) | Gray-brown lines that are connected at an angle or coalescing to form polygons |
Annular granular pattern | Dots and structureless areas arranged around follicle openings (and involving adnexal opening) |
Annular-granular pattern | dots gray and circles gray |
Arborizing blood vessels | analytic term is branched vessels; Bright red sharply in focus large or thick diameter vessels dividing into smaller vessels; BCC |
Arborizing vessels | analytic term is branched vessels; Bright red sharply in focus large or thick diameter vessels dividing into smaller vessels; BCC |
Arrangement | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Artificial intelligence | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Asymmetric pigmented follicular openings | Pigment associated with adnexal opening that does not uniformly surround the entire opening or curved (or crescent shaped) pigment lines partially surrounding adnexal openings |
Attachment | A device used to attach two devices together |
Attachments | Devices that are used to use (attach) two devices together |
Attachments to smartphones | These are devices which allow to take dermoscopy images with smartphones. Usually they have their own optics and illumination. |
Atypical network | Network with increased variability in the color, thickness, and spacing of the lines of the network; asymmetrically distributed; gray color |
Atypical nevi | Nevi that clinically look like melanoma but that histopathologically are not melanomas |
Atypical pigment network | Network with increased variability in the color, thickness, and spacing of the lines of the network; asymmetrically distributed; gray color |
Author | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
BCC | Abbreviation for Basal Cell Carcinoma |
Bap1 inactivated tumor | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Bapoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Basal cell carcinoma | is the most common skin cancer, and one of the most common cancers in the United States.[1] While BCC has a very low metastatic risk, this tumor can cause significant disfigurement by invading surrounding tissues |
Bcc | is the most common skin cancer, and one of the most common cancers in the United States.[1] While BCC has a very low metastatic risk, this tumor can cause significant disfigurement by invading surrounding tissues |
Bcc, dermoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Benign | is any condition that is harmless in the long run |
Benign lesions | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Benign nevi | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Black | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Blink sign | While toggling between polarized and non polarized light, the structures that are more visibile with either one type of light will be enhanced and though blink at you |
Blood vessels | are the part of the circulatory system, and microcirculation, that transports blood throughout the human body |
Blood vessels, vascular architecture | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Blotch | Dark structureless areas |
Blue | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Blue globules | clods blue small |
Blue gray dots and globules | Multiple Blue-Gray Non-aggregated Dots and Globules |
Blue gray ovoid nest | Well-circumscribed ovoid structures with confluent or near confluent blue-gray pigmentation. |
Blue gray ovoid nests | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Blue nevus | is a type of melanocytic nevus that clinically and dermoscopically will appear blue |
Blue structureless zone | blue-whitish veil melanoma |
Blue white structures | term used for flat areas with white (scarlike) and blue color. This has to be distinguisehd from blue white veil. |
Blue white veil | Blue-white veil is confluent blue pigmentation with an overlying white “ground-glass” haze. In melanoma, the bluewhite veil does not occupy the entire surface area of the lesion, but rather is present as a focal, ill-defined area. Histopathologically, this dermoscopic structure corresponds to an aggregation of heavily pigmented cells (melanocytes and/or melanophages) or melanin in the dermis (blue color) in combination with compact orthokeratosis |
Blue whitish veil | An irregular shaped blotch of blue hue with an overlying whitish ground-glass haze Angulated lines (polygons, zig-zag pattern) Gray-brown lines that are connected at an angle or coalescing to form polygons |
Blue-gray ovoid nests | clods blue large clustered |
Body scan | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Body site | describes the area of the body |
Bogus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Book | A book is a set of sheets of paper, parchment, or similar materials that are fastened together to hinge at one side. |
Books | is a series of pages assembled for easy portability and reading |
Bowen | also known as squamous cell carcinoma in situ[1] is a neoplastic skin disease. It can be considered as an early stage or intraepidermal form of squamous cell carcinoma. It was named after John T. Bowen |
Bowen's disease | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Brain-like appearance | lines, curved and thick to describe the pattern and fissures and ridges (former synonyms “gyry and sulci” and “fat fingers”) to describe the structural components of the pattern SK |
Branched streaks | Broadened or widened network with broken lines and incomplete connections |
Branched vessels | arborizing vessels Bright red sharply in focus large or thick diameter vessels dividing into smaller vessels BCC |
Branched vessels with rounded endings | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Broadened network | widening of the network lines |
Broadened network widening of the network lines | widening of the network lines |
Brown | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Brown or black structureless zone | blotch If centric hypermelanotic Clark (“dysplastic”) nevus if eccentric melanoma |
Browse | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Caffe | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Camera | A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both. The images may be individual still photographs or sequences of images constituting videos or movies |
Canfield | Canfield - supplier of digital photographic systems, imaging software, and associated support services to aid healthcare professionals in improving patient communications and managing treatment outcomes. Manufacturer of 2D / 3D imaging devices (DermaGraphix® body mapping software, Canfield IntelliStudio, Visiomed and VEOS Dermoscopy, VECTRA WB360 3D whole body imaging system. |
Centered dots vessels | targetoid vessels red dots (vessels) in the center of hypopigmented space between reticular lines congenital melanocytic nevus |
Central white patch | Central white structureless area |
Cerebriform pattern | Is a dermoscopy pattern that resembles the aspect of a brain. Commonly seen in seborrheic keratosis. |
Cerebriform pattern (former synonyms: “brain-like appearance”) | lines, curved and thick to describe the pattern and fissures and ridges (former synonyms “gyry and sulci” and “fat fingers”) to describe the structural components of the pattern SK |
Ceribriform pattern | Thick curved lines created by gyri and keratin filled sulci. These gyri and sulci coalesce forming a brain-like appearance pattern. |
Chainer | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Chaos and Clues | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Chaos and clues | This an algorithm used in dermoscopy Chaos and Clues |
Chapters | A main division of a book, typically with a number or title. |
Checklist | is a type of informational job aid used to reduce failure by compensating for potential limits of human memory and attention. |
Chloasma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Chrysalis structures | olt term for Chrysalis / Cristalline Structures |
Cicatrical alopecia | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Cicatricial alopecia | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Circle within a circle | circles concentric |
Circles | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Circles concentric | circle within a circle lentigo maligna |
Circles incomplete | asymmetric pigmented follicular openings lentigo maligna |
Circles white | SCC |
Classification | is a general process related to categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood. |
Clear cell acanthoma | (also known as "Acanthome cellules claires of Degos and Civatte," "Degos acanthoma," and "Pale cell acanthoma") is a benign clinical and histological lesion initially described as neoplastic, which some authors now regard as a reactive dermatosis. It usually presents as a moist solitary firm, brown-red, well-circumscribed, 5 mm to 2 cm nodule or plaque on the lower extremities of middle-aged to elderly individuals The lesion has a crusted, scaly peripheral collarette and vascular puncta on the surface. It is characterized by slow growth, and may persist for years. The clinical differential diagnosis includes: dermatofibroma, inflamed seborrheic keratosis, pyogenic granuloma, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, verruca vulgaris, psoriatic plaque, and melanoma. |
Clinical | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Clinical examination | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Clod vessels | red-purple lacunes More or less sharply demarcated roundish or oval areas with a reddish red-bluish maroon or dark-red to black coloration separated from each other by intervening stroma without vessels inside the lacunae. hemangioma |
Clod within a clod | variant of spoke wheel area BCC |
Clod within a clod (concentric clods) | variant of spoke wheel area BCC |
Clods | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Clods blue large clustered | blue-gray ovoid nests BCC |
Clods blue small | blue globules BCC |
Clods brown circumferential | rim of brown globules growing nevi |
Clods brown or blue concentric (clod within a clod) | concentric globules BCC |
Clods brown or skin colored large and polygonal | cobblestone pattern dermal nevi |
Clods brown yellow or orange (rarely black) | comedo-like openings SK |
Clods pink and small | milky red globules melanoma |
Clods red or purple | red lacunes hemangioma |
Clods small round or oval | globules various diagnoses |
Clods white shiny | shiny white blotches and strands BCC |
Clues | Evidence, in an investigation |
Clustered vessels | Coiled or glomerular vessels arranged in groups Bowen disease |
Cobblestone Globules | Polygonal globules symmetrically distributed throughout lesion rim of brown globules |
Cobblestone globules | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Cobblestone pattern | clods brown or skin colored large and polygonal |
Cobblestones globules | Polygonal globules symmetrically distributed throughout lesion |
Coiled vessels | glomerular vessels tightly coiled vessels resembling the glomerular apparatus of the kidney Bowen disease |
Collsion | The coexistence of two different lesions in a single place |
Color | Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, yellow, purple, or blue. |
Color wheel | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Colors | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Combination | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Combined nevus | Benign nevus with 2 different cell population in the same lesion. Most frequently this refers to a junctional nevua in associatoin with a blue nevus |
Comedo-like opening | Round to oval keratin filled clefts |
Comedo-like openings | Comedo like openings |
Comma vessels | linear curved short vessels dermal nevi |
Computer | is a device that can be instructed to carry out arbitrary sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. The ability of computers to follow generalized sets of operations, called programs, enables them to perform an extremely wide range of tasks. |
Computer asissted diagnosis | are systems that assist doctors in the interpretation of medical images. Imaging techniques in X-ray, MRI, and ultrasound diagnostics yield a great deal of information that the radiologist or other medical professional has to analyze and evaluate comprehensively in a short time. CAD systems process digital images for typical appearances and to highlight conspicuous sections, such as possible diseases, in order to offer input to support a decision taken by the professional. |
Computer assisted diagnosis | are systems that assist doctors in the interpretation of medical images. Imaging techniques in X-ray, MRI, and ultrasound diagnostics yield a great deal of information that the radiologist or other medical professional has to analyze and evaluate comprehensively in a short time. CAD systems process digital images for typical appearances and to highlight conspicuous sections, such as possible diseases, in order to offer input to support a decision taken by the professional. |
Concentric globules | clods brown or blue concentric (clod within a clod) |
Concentric structures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Confocal microscopy | is an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution and contrast of a micrograph by means of using a spatial pinhole to block out-of-focus light in image formation.[1] Capturing multiple two-dimensional images at different depths in a sample enables the reconstruction of three-dimensional structures (a process known as optical sectioning) within an object. |
Congenital nevi | is a type of melanocytic nevus (or mole) found in infants at birth. This type of birthmark occurs in an estimated 1% of infants worldwide; it is located in the area of the head and neck 15% of the time. |
Congress | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Context | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Contribute | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Corkscrew vessels | twisted looped vessels with bends twisted along a central axis melanoma metastasis |
Correlation | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Cristalline structures | Christalline structures, are white shiny linear streaks that are seen under polarized dermoscopy, but not under nonpolarized dermoscopy. The white streaks are oriented parallel, and sometimes also orthogonal (perpendicular) to each other. Chrysalis structures can be seen in scars, dermatofibromas, basal cell carcinomas, and also in melanomas and Spitz nevi. These structures correlate histopathologically with altered collagen in the dermis (fibrosis). The birefringent properties of collagen bundles causes rapid randomization of polarized light and this is, why collagen appears bright white and more conspicuous under polarized dermoscopy. |
Criteria | measure of how well one variable or set of variables predicts an outcome |
Crown vessels | Radial serpentine or arborizing vessels at the periphery of the lesion that radiate towards the center but do not cross the midline of the lesion. sebaceous hyperplasia |
Crypts | Keratin filled invaginations that are larger than comedo- like openings Moth eaten border Border with concave or sharp punched-out invaginations |
Curved vessels | comma vessels - linear curved short vessels - dermal nevi monomorphous vessels: one type of vessel dominates |
Cutaneous b cell lymphoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Cutaneous larva migrans | is a skin disease in humans, caused by the larvae of various nematode parasites of the hookworm family (Ancylostomatidae). The most common species causing this disease in the Americas is Ancylostoma braziliense. These parasites live in the intestines of dogs, cats, and wild animals and should not be confused with other members of the hookworm family for which humans are definitive hosts, namely Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus. |
Cutaneous mastocytosis | is a form of mastocytosis that primarily affects the skin. There are three main forms of the condition: maculopapular cutaneous mastocytosis (also called urticaria pigmentosa), solitary cutaneous mastocytoma, and diffuse cutaneous mastocytosis. There is also an exteremely rare form called telangiectasia macularis eruptiva perstans. The signs, symptoms and severity of the condition vary by subtype. |
DSLR | Digital single-lens reflex camera |
Darier | is an autosomal dominant disorder discovered by French dermatologist Ferdinand-Jean Darier. Darier's is characterized by dark crusty patches on the skin, sometimes containing pus. The crusty patches are also known as keratotic papules, keratosis follicularis or dyskeratosis follicularis.[4][5] Mild forms of the disease are the most common, consisting solely of skin rashes that flare up under certain conditions such as high humidity, high stress or tight-fitting clothes. Even in mild forms, short stature combined with poorly formed fingernails containing vertical striations are diagnostic. |
Darier's disease | is an autosomal dominant disorder discovered by French dermatologist Ferdinand-Jean Darier. Darier's is characterized by dark crusty patches on the skin, sometimes containing pus. The crusty patches are also known as keratotic papules, keratosis follicularis or dyskeratosis follicularis.[4][5] Mild forms of the disease are the most common, consisting solely of skin rashes that flare up under certain conditions such as high humidity, high stress or tight-fitting clothes. Even in mild forms, short stature combined with poorly formed fingernails containing vertical striations are diagnostic. |
Dariers disease | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Deep learning | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Delicate network | light brown, thin network lines |
Demodicidosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Depigmented structureless area | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dermal nevi | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dermatitis | also known as eczema is a group of diseases that results in inflammation of the skin. |
Dermatofibroma | Dermatofibromas are hard solitary slow-growing papules (rounded bumps) that may appear in a variety of colours, usually brownish to tan; they are often elevated or pedunculated. A dermatofibroma is associated with the dimple sign; by applying lateral pressure, there is a central depression of the dermatofibroma. |
Dermatopathology | A joint subspecialty of dermatology and pathology and to a lesser extent of surgical pathology that focuses on the study of cutaneous diseases at a microscopic and molecular level. It also encompasses analyses of the potential causes of skin diseases at a basic level. Dermatopathologists work in close association with clinical dermatologists. In fact, most of them are trained primarily in dermatology themselves. |
Dermatoscope | This traditionally consists of a magnifier (typically x10), a non-polarised light source, a transparent plate and a liquid medium between the instrument and the skin, and allows inspection of skin lesions unobstructed by skin surface reflections. Modern dermatoscopes dispense with the use of liquid medium and instead use polarised light to cancel out skin surface reflections. |
Dermatoscopy | The examination of [skin lesions] with a 'dermatoscope'. This traditionally consists of a magnifier (typically x10), a non-polarised light source, a transparent plate and a liquid medium between the instrument and the skin, and allows inspection of skin lesions unobstructed by skin surface reflections. Modern dermatoscopes dispense with the use of liquid medium and instead use polarised light to cancel out skin surface reflections. |
Dermlite | Brand name of the dermatoscopes manufactured by 3gen |
Dermo | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dermoscopedia | Dermoscopedia is the name of this website and is providing state of knowledge information concerning dermoscopy - a non invasive diagnostic method. |
Dermoscopes | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dermoscopic structures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dermoscopy | The examination of [skin lesions] with a 'dermatoscope'. This traditionally consists of a magnifier (typically x10), a non-polarised light source, a transparent plate and a liquid medium between the instrument and the skin, and allows inspection of skin lesions unobstructed by skin surface reflections. Modern dermatoscopes dispense with the use of liquid medium and instead use polarised light to cancel out skin surface reflections. |
Descriptive term | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Descriptive terminology | Terminology using descriptive terms |
Desmoplastic melanoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Device | A piece of equipment designed to perform a special function |
Df | abbreviation of dermatofibroma |
Diagnosis | is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience to determine "cause and effect". In systems engineering and computer science, it is typically used to determine the causes of symptoms, mitigations, and solutions |
Diagnostic | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Diagnostic accuracy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Diagnostic strategy | systemic approach for establishing a diagnosis |
Dictionnary | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Difficult | needing much effort or skill to accomplish |
Diffuse pigmentation of variable shades of grey | Diffuse pigmentation on palms ans soles seen in melanoma |
Digital camera | is a camera that produces still, single-frame (and may produce moving, multi-frame) images that can be stored in digital memory, displayed on a screen and printed os a camera that produces still, single-frame (and may produce moving, multi-frame) images that can be stored in digital memory, displayed on a screen and printed on physical media. n physical media. |
Digital dermoscopy | Dermoscopy using digital images. This is used for telemedicine and monitoring. |
Digital mole monitoring | Taking sequential images of pigmentes lesions in order to be able to evaluate change over time. |
Discoid lupus | is a chronic skin condition of sores with inflammation and scarring favouring the face, ears, and scalp and at times on other body areas. These lesions develop as a red, inflamed patch with a scaling and crusty appearance. The centre areas may appear lighter in colour with a rim darker than the normal skin. |
Discoid lupus erythematosus | is a chronic skin condition of sores with inflammation and scarring favouring the face, ears, and scalp and at times on other body areas. These lesions develop as a red, inflamed patch with a scaling and crusty appearance. The centre areas may appear lighter in colour with a rim darker than the normal skin. |
Disease | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dissecting cellulitis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dissecting cellulitits | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dot | See Dots |
Dots | Dots are small, round structures of less than 0.1 mm in diameter that have a red color when corresponding to blood vessels; however, when due to melanin, their color ranges from black, brown, to blue-gray depending on the depth and concentration of the melanin in the skin (Tyndall effect). |
Dots any color | granularity or granules |
Dots brown central (in the center of hypopigmented spaces between reticular lines) | targetoid dots congenital nevi |
Dots gray | peppering Melanoma, LPLK |
Dots gray and circles gray | annular-granular pattern lentigo maligna |
Dots irregular | Any distribution of dots other than dots as described for regular dots. |
Dots or clods white clustered or disseminated | milia like cysts, cloudy or starry SK |
Dots peripheral arranged in lines | linear dots. Significant for pigmented Bowen disease |
Dots regular | Dots clustered at the center of the lesion, or located on the network lines (also called target network) |
Dots white four arranged in a square | rosettes. Significant for various diagnoses but mainly AK, SCC, actinic damaged skin |
Dotted vessels | tiny pinpoint vessels |
Download | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dysplastic nevi | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Dysplastic nevus syndrome | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Eccentric brown (tan) structureless area | melanoma |
Eczematous nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Edit | Editing refers to changing the content of a page. |
Editing | Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information. |
Electrical impedance | is the measure of the opposition that a circuit presents to a current when a voltage is applied. |
Else | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
is a method of exchanging messages between people using electronic devices. | |
Entomodermoscopy | a new tool for diagnosing skin infections and infestations. |
Equipment | physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process |
Erosion | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Event | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Evolution | is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations |
Exceptions | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Exostosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Experience | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Face | is a central body region of sense and is also very central in the expression of emotion among humans and among numerous other species. |
Facial skin | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Fat fingers | they are linear and wide dermoscopic structures corresponding to ridges. They often appear as short sausage-shaped structures. Colors of these structures vary from tan/brown, blue and can be hypopigmented. |
Fibrillar pattern | Linear pigmented filamentous lines of similar length with one end at the furrows and oriented at a certain angle to the furrows and crossing the ridges |
Fibrillar pattern linear | pigmented filamentous lines of similar length with one end at the furrows and oriented at a certain angle to the furrows and crossing the ridges |
Fibroepithelioma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Figures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
File handling | describes the handling of digital files |
File upload | digital files can be uploaded to the server |
Files | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Fingerprint like structures | They are areas consisting of fi ne parallel running lines of light brown to dark brown colors. They resemble the dermatoglyphics of a human fingerprint. |
Fingerprint pattern | Light brown thin curved lines that do not interconnect to form a network. These tend to be linear to curvilinear. They correspond to small and thin gyri. |
Fingerprint-like areas | They are areas consisting of fi ne parallel running lines of light brown to dark brown colors. They resemble the dermatoglyphics of a human fingerprint. |
Fingerprinting | lines brown curved parallel thin |
Fissure | Fissures (sulci) are comedo-like openings, which are not round but rather linear and appear as dark brown to black linear to curvilinear structures within the lesion. |
Fissures and ridges | lines, curved and thick to describe the structural components of the pattern SK |
Fitzpatrick | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Follicle openings | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Follicular signs | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Follicules | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Folliculitis decalvans | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Folliculitits decalvans | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Fotofinder | Brand name of a manufacturer of digital dermoscopy devices |
Fractured hairs | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Full body imaging | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Furrow ink test | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
General dermatology | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
General medecine | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
General medicine | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Genetic disease | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Genital | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Globular pattern | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Globule | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Globules | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Globules cobblestone | Polygonal globules symmetrically distributed throughout lesion |
Globules irregular | Globules with variability in color, size, shape or spacing and distributed in an asymmetric fashion |
Globules regular | Globules with minimal variability in their color, size and shape |
Glomerular vessels | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Glomus cell tumor | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Glomus-cell tumor | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Granularity | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Granuloma annulare | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Granulomatous | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Granulomatous skin disease | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Growing nevi | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
HPV | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
HPV infection | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hair | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hair follicle | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hair shaft | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hair shafts | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hair: dermoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hairpin blood vessels | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Halo nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Handheld scope | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Handheld scopes | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Heine | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Helical vessels | corkscrew twisted looped vessels with bends twisted along a central axis melanoma metastasis |
Help | Refers to giving assistance or support to others for mutual benefit |
Hemangioma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Histiocytofibroma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Histiocytosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Histology | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Histopathology | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Homgenous pattern | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Homogeneous blue pattern | This benign pattern is frequently seen in blue nevus |
Homogeneous brown pattern | This benign pattern is frequently seen in congenital nevi |
Homogeneous light brown pigmentation | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Homogeneous light brown pigmentation | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Homogeneous pattern | A pattern lacking any definable pigment structures, structureless pattern |
Homogeneous tan pattern | This benign pattern is frequently seen in nevi in redheads |
Homogenous blue pattern | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Homogenous pattern | structureless any color |
How to | Gives basic instructions and directions to someone on the methods for doing or making something. |
How to: Log in | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hpv | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hyperpigmented | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hyperpigmented structureless area | blotch If centric hypermelanotic Clark (“dysplastic”) nevus if eccentric melanoma |
Hypomelanotic melanoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hypopigmented | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Hypopigmented structureless area | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
IDN | Intradermal nevus |
IDS | IDS stands for the International Dermoscopy Society. |
ISIC | ISIC stands for the International Skin Imaging Collaboration project. |
ISIC Archive | ISIC Archive is the name of the image repository of the International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC). |
Icon | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Images | A representation of a person, animal or thing, photographed, painted or otherwise made visible. |
Imaging | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Imaging technique | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Immersion | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Immunotherapy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Importance | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
In situ | not seen to be spreading from a localized position |
Incognito | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Ines curved and thick in combination with clods | crypts SK |
Ines white perpendicular | shiny white streaks (former synonyms: chrysalis, chrysalids, crystalline) melanoma, BCC, Spitz nevus, dermatofibroma |
Infection | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Infectious | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Infectious disease | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Inflammation | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Inflammatory | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Inflammatory diseases | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Inflammoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Ink test | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Inserting files | This term describes the process of adding a file or image to a page. It relates to help pages on this website. |
Instructions | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Interfollicular skin | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
International Dermoscopy Society | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
International Skin Imaging Collaboration | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
International Society for Digital Imaging of the Skin | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
International dermoscopy society | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Intradermal nevi | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Involution | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Irregular Gobules | Globules with variability in color, size, shape or spacing and distributed in an asymmetric fashion |
Irregular blotch | More than one blotch or a blotch that is located off center |
Irregular dots | Any distribution of dots other than dots as described for regular dots. |
Irregular globules | Globules with variability in color, size, shape or spacing and distributed in an asymmetric fashion |
Irregular hyperpigmented structureless areas | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Irregular network | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Irregular streaks | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Isdis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Isic | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Isic archive | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Junevile xanthogranuloma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Juvenile xanthogranuloma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Kaposi sarcoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Keras | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Keratinizing tumor | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Keratoacanthoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
LM | Lentigo Maligna |
LMM | Lentigo maligna melanoma |
LPLK | Lichen planus like keratosis |
Lacunae | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Large blue gray ovoid nests | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Larva migrans | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lattice-like pattern | Volar pigmentation forming thin lines, parallel on the furrow or sulci superficialis (invaginations in dermatoglyphics) and crossing perpendicular on the ridges |
Leaf like areas | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Leaf like areas (sometimes variously shaped large clods have also been termed leaf like areas) | lines, radial, connected to a common base BCC |
Leaf-like areas | Brown to gray/blue discrete linear or bulbous structures coalescing at a common off center base creating structures that resemble a leaf-like pattern. |
Leishmaniosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lentigo | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lentigo maligna | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lentigo maligna melanoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lesions | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lice | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lichen | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lichen planopilaris | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lichen planus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lichen planus like keratosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lichen sclerosus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Light brown structureless area | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Linear dots | dots peripheral arranged in lines linear dots pigmented Bowen disease |
Linear irregular | linear vessels with multiple bends |
Linear vessels | Linear mildly curved vessels considered irregular when different sizes shapes and curves with a haphazard or random distribution are presented and considered regular when short and fine (thin) linear vessels prevail various diagnoses |
Lines | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lines angulated or polygonal (facial skin) | rhomboids lentigo maligna |
Lines angulated or polygonal (non-facial skin) | angulated lines/polygons/zig-zag pattern lentiginous melanomas (non-facial non-acral) |
Lines branched | branched streaks melanocytic lesion |
Lines brown curved parallel thin | fingerprinting solar lentigo |
Lines curved and thick | cerebriform pattern (former synonyms: “brain-like appearance”) to describe the pattern and fissures and ridges (former synonyms “gyry and sulci” and “fat fingers”) to describe the structural components of the pattern SK |
Lines curved and thick in combination with clods | crypts SK |
Lines parallel short crossing ridges (volar skin) | fibrillar pattern acral nevi |
Lines parallel thick on the ridges (volar skin) | parallel ridge pattern acral melanoma |
Lines parallel thin in the furrows (volar skin) | parallel furrows pattern acral nevi |
Lines parallel thin in the furrows and crossing the ridges (volar skin) | lattice-like pattern acral nevi |
Lines radial | streaks |
Lines radial and segmental | radial streaming melanoma recurrent nevi |
Lines radial circumferential | starburst pattern Reed nevus |
Lines radial connected to a common base | leaf like areas (sometimes variously shaped large clods have also been termed leaf like areas) BCC |
Lines radial converging to a central dot or clod | spoke wheel area (sometimes a clod within a clod has also been termed spoke-wheel area/concentric structure) BCC |
Lines reticular | Metaphoric term: pigment network melanocytic lesions dermatofibroma solar lentigo |
Lines reticular and thick | broadened network melanoma |
Lines reticular and thick or reticular lines that vary in color | atypical pigment network melanoma |
Lines reticular and thin | delicate network melanocytic nevi |
Lines reticular hypopigmented around brown clods | negative pigment network (former synonyms: inverse network reticular depigmentation) melanoma Spitz nevus |
Lines reticular white | melanoma Spitz nevus dermatofibroma |
Lines white perpendicular | shiny white streaks (former synonyms: chrysalis chrysalids crystalline) melanoma BCC Spitz nevus dermatofibroma |
Lines, radial (always at periphery) | streaks |
Links | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lip | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lm | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lmm | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Log in | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Looped vessels | metaphoric term: hairpin vessels two parallel linear vessels forming a half looped or hairpin like structure |
Lorem ipsum | It is a placeholder text commonly used In publishing and graphic design to demonstrate the visual appearance of a document without relying on meaningful content. |
Lplk | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lupus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lupus erythematosus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lupus vulgaris | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lymphangioma circumscriptum | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Lymphoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
MAY globules | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Machine vision | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Malignant | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Malignant lesions | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Malignant onyhopapiloma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Management | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mastocytosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Melanocytic | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Melanoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Melanoma, skin | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Melasma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Menzies method | The Menzies Method is a simplified dermoscopy method for diagnosing melanomas |
Merkel cell carcinoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Metadata | Data or information that provides information about other data. |
Metaphoric | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Metaphoric term | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Metaphoric terminology | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Meyerson nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Microvenular hemangioma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Miescher Nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Milia like cysts cloudy or starry | dots or clods white clustered or disseminated |
Milia-like cyst | White to yellowish round opalescent structures corresponding to intraepidermal cysts. When they are small and bright they are called starry. When they are larger and less bright they are called cloudy. |
Milia-like cyst ("cloudy or starry") | White to yellowish round opalescent structures corresponding to intraepidermal cysts. When they are small and bright they are called starry. When they are larger and less bright they are called cloudy. |
Milia-like cysts | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Milky red areas | Milky-white appearance or pinkish structureless areas ("strawberry and ice cream"-like), consisting a red vascular blush with no specific distinguishable vessels |
Milky red globules | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mimickers | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mission statement | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mobile dermoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mobile teledermoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mole monitoring | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Molluscum contagiosum | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Monomorphous vessels | one type of vessel dominates various diagnoses |
Morphology | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Moth eaten border | Border with concave or sharp punched-out invaginations |
Moth-eaten border | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mucosa | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mulluscum | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Multicomponent pattern | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Multiple blue-gray non-aggregated dots and globules | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Multiple nevi | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mxnet | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Mycosis fungoides | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
NMM | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Naevus bleu | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nail | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nail dermoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nail dermoscopy, nail | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nail matrix | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nail melanoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nails | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Navigate | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Negative | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Negative network | Serpiginous interconnecting broadened hypopigmented lines that surround elongated and curvilinear globules. |
Negative pigment network | lines reticular hypopigmented around brown clods |
Network | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Network-like structures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Neural networks | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nevi | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nevus classification | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nevus pattern | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nexus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nodular | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nodular basal cell carcinoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nodular melanoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Non melanocytic | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Non melanocytic lesions | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Non polarized dermoscopes | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Non polarized dermoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Non polarized light | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Non-pigmented | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nonmelanocytic | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Nonscarring alopecia | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Normal finding | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Normal hair, normal scalp | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Npd | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Oct | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Online | Online means that something is available over, or delivered from, the internet. |
Onychomatricoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Onychopapilloma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Onychotillomania | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Optical coherence tomography | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Oral | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Other | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Other resource | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Others | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Others, else | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Ovoid nests | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Palms | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Parallel furrow pattern | Volar pigmentation forming solid or dotted lines, parallel, thin, on the furrows (sulci superficiales or invaginations in dermatoglyphics). The lines are occasionally doubled, each line is beside the furrows. |
Parallel furrows pattern | lines parallel thin in the furrows (volar skin) |
Parallel ridge pattern | Volar pigmentation forming lines, parallel, diffuse and irregular, along the ridges or cristae superficiales (raised portion of the dermatoglyphics) |
Parasitosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Password | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Patchy reticular pattern | A patchy network pattern is a benign pattern composed of islands of pigment network symettrically distributed throughout the entire lesion. |
Pathology | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pattern analysis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Patterns | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
This glossary term has not yet been described. | |
Pearls on a string | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pediculosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Peppering | Gray dots |
Peppering / granularity | Consists of fine dots with a blue grey color |
Perifollicular skin | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Peripheral globules | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Peripheral reticular with central globules | This is a benign pattern with peripherl reticulation (pigment network) and regular globules in the center |
Peripheral reticular with central hyperpigmentation | In this benign pattern we see typical pigment network at the periphery of lesion with a central dark structureless area. |
Peripheral reticular with central hypopigmentation | In this benign pattern we see typical pigment network at the periphery of a lesion with a central light stuctureles area. This is seen very frequently in compound nevi. |
Peripheral rim of globules pattern | This pattern is currently seen in growing lesions. |
Persistant nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Philosophy | A theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behavior and actions. |
Philosphy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pigment network | Grid-like pattern consisting of interconnecting pigmented lines surrounding hypopigmented holes. |
Pigment network atypical | Network with increased variability in the color, thickness, and spacing of the lines of the network; asymmetrically distributed; gray color |
Pigmentations | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pigmented | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pigmented basal cell carcinoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pigmented purpuric dermatoses | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pink structureless zone | milky red areas melanoma |
Pinkus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pityriasis rubra pilaris | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Placeholder | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Plexus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Podcast | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Podcasts | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Point | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Polarized | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Polarized dermoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Polarized light | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Polychromatic structureless zone | rainbow pattern various diagnoses |
Polygons | lines angulated or polygonal (non-facial skin) |
Polymorphous vessels | multiple types of vessels are present may indicate malignancy in appropriate context for example in flat melanocytic lesions |
Popcorn like structure | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Porokeratosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Poroma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Port wine | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Port wine stain | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pregnancy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Presentation | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Principle | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Principles | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Prokeratosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pseudmelanoma | Recurrent / persistent nevi |
Pseudo-network | structureless brown interrupted by follicular openings (facial-skin) |
Pseudonetwork | A structureless pigment area interrupted by non-pigmented adnexal openings |
Pseudopods | Bulbous and often kinked projections seen at the lesion edge, either directly associated with a network or solid tumor border. |
Pseudopods circumferential | starburst pattern Reed nevus |
Pseudopods circumferential or lines radial circumferential | starburst pattern Reed nevus |
Psoriasis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pyogenic granuloma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Pytorch | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Radial streaming | Radial linear extensions at the lesion edge |
Radial vessels | crown vessels Radial serpentine or arborizing vessels at the periphery of the lesion that radiate towards the center but do not cross the midline od the lesion. sebaceous hyperplasia |
Rainbow pattern | Circumscribed structureless areas displaying colors of the whole spectrum of visible light |
Rating | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Recurrent nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Red | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Red lacunes | clods red or purple |
Red-purple lacunes | More or less sharply demarcated roundish or oval areas with a reddish red-bluish maroon or dark-red to black coloration separated from each other by intervening stroma without vessels inside the lacunae. hemangioma |
Reed nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
References | This is material contained in a footnote or bibliography holding further information. |
Refractive index | A dimensionless number that describes how light propagates through a medium |
Regression | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Regression structures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Regular Globules | Globules with minimal variability in their color, size and shape |
Regular blotch | One blotch within center of lesion and surrounded by network |
Regular dots | Dots clustered at the center of the lesion, or located on the network lines (also called target network) |
Regular globues | Globules with minimal variability in their color, size and shape |
Regular globules | Globules with minimal variability in their color, size and shape |
Regular hyperpigmented structureless area | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Regular streaks | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Ressources | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Rete ridges | Epidermal extensions that project into the underlying dermis |
Reticular lines | pigment network melanocytic lesions dermatofibroma solar lentigo |
Reticular pattern | A lesion with a reticular pattern has typical pigment network throughout the entire lesion. |
Reticular pattern with peripheral globules | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Rhomboids | Gray-brown angulated lines forming a polygonal shape around adnexal ostial openings. |
Ridge | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Rim of brown globules | Globules distributed at the periphery of lesion |
Rosacea | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Rosettes | Four bright white dots or clods arranged together as a square (or a four leaf clover) |
Rule | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
S | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
SCC | Squamous cell carcinoma |
SSM | Superficial spreading melanoma |
Sarcoidosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Scabies | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Scalp | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Scalp diseases | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Scalp psoriasis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Scar-like depigmentation | Area of white that is whiter than surrounding normal skin (true scarring). It should not be confused with hypo- or depigmentation due to simple loss of melanin. Shiny white structures and blood vessels are not seen in areas of regression. |
Scc | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Scc in situ | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Scibase | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Sebaceous hyperplasia | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Seborrheic dermatitis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Seborrheic keratoses | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Seborrheic keratosis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Sensitivity | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Serpentine vessels | linear irregular vessels with multiple bends. Seen with flat BCC and melanoma |
Serpiginous vessels | string of perls Coiled or dotted vessels arranged in lines clear cell acanthoma |
Session | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Seven | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Sharply demarcated border | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Sharply demarcated scalloped border | moth eaten border solar lentigo |
Shiny white areas | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Shiny white blotches and strands | White structures in the form of circles, oval structures, or large structureless areas that are bright-white longer and less well defined lines oriented parallel or distributed haphazardly, or forming blotches (shiny white clods). Seen only under polarized dermoscopy. |
Shiny white lines | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Shiny white streaks | White lines that appear parallel and perpendicular to each other on polarized dermoscopy |
Shiny white streaks (former synonyms: chrysalis - chrysalids - crystalline) | lines, white, perpendicular* shiny white streaks (former synonyms: chrysalis, chrysalids, crystalline) melanoma, BCC, Spitz nevus, dermatofibroma |
Shiny white structures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Short term monitoring | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Skin | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Skin cancer | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Skin of color | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Skin type | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Skin types | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Smartphone | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Smartphones | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Soc | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Solar lentigines | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Solar lentigo | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Soles | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Special locations | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Specificity | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Spitz nevi | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Spitz nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Spoke wheel area | Well-circumscribed radial projections, usually light brown but sometimes blue or gray in color meeting at a central darker clod that has a dark brown, black or blue color. |
Spoke wheel like structures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Spreading | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Squamous cell carcinoma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Ssm | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Starburst pattern | This pattern consists of peripheral globules, pseudopods or streaks (or a combination of them), located around the entire perimeter of the lesion |
Starbust pattern | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Strawberry pattern | Reddish pseudo-network (erythema and wavy fine vessels) around hair follicle openings which are accentuated with a white halo appearance |
Streaks | lines radial (always at periphery) streaks Reed nevus melanoma recurrent nevus |
String of pearls | Coiled or dotted vessels arranged in lines clear cell acanthoma |
String of perls | Coiled or dotted vessels arranged in lines clear cell acanthoma |
Structureless | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Structureless any color | homogenous pattern various diagnoses |
Structureless area | homogenous pattern various diagnoses |
Structureless brown (tan) eccentric | melanoma |
Structureless brown area interrupted by follicular openings | pseudo-network facial pigmented lesions |
Structureless brown interrupted by follicular openings | pseudo-network facial pigmented lesions |
Structureless red area interrupted by follicular openings | strawberry pattern actinic keratosis |
Structureless red interrupted by follicular openings | strawberry pattern actinic keratosis |
Structureless zone blue | blue-whitish veil melanoma |
Structureless zone brown or black | blotch If centric hypermelanotic Clark (“dysplastic”) nevus if eccentric melanoma |
Structureless zone pink | milky red areas melanoma |
Structureless zone polychromatic | rainbow pattern various diagnoses |
Structureless zone white | scar-like depigmentation melanoma |
Structureless zone white central | central white patch dermatofibroma |
Structures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Subtypes | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Subungual hemorrhage | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Sun damage | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Sun damaged skin | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Superficial | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Surface glare | Difficulty seeing in the presence of light that is reflected from the skin surface |
Suton nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Symmetric brown follicular pigmentation | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Symmetric follicular pigmentation | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Systems for digital dermoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Table of contents | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tablet | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tablets | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tada | Triage Amalgamated Dermoscopic Algorithm |
Tan structureless area | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tape stripping | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Targetoid dots | dots brown central (in the center of hypopigmented spaces between reticular lines) |
Targetoid hemosiderotic hemangioma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Targetoid vessels | analytic term: centered dots vessels // red dots (vessels) in the center of hypopigmented space between reticular lines // congenital melanocytic nevus |
Teledermoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Telemedecine | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Telogen effluvium | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tensorflow | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Term | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Terminology | The system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art or specialized subject / nomenclature. |
Terminology (metaphoric term) | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Terminology (vessel morphology - vessel arrangement) | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Terminology (vessel morphology - vessel) | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Terminology (vessel morphology) | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Terminology, metaphoric term | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Terminology, vessel morphology, vessel arrangement | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Test | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Three-point | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tick bites | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tinea capitis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tinea nigra | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tipps | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Total body imaging | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Total body photography | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Trauma | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Trichoscopic patterns | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Trichoscopic structures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Trichoscopy | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Trichotillimania | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Trichotillomania | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tricks | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tumor | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tumors | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tungiasis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tutorials | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Two-step algorithm | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Tyndall effect | Caused by light scattering by particles in a medium. The longer-wavelength light is more transmitted while the shorter-wavelength light is more reflected via scattering. |
Typical network | Network with minimal variability in the color thickness and spacing of the lines; symmetrically distributed |
Typical pigment network | Network with minimal variability in the color, thickness, and spacing of the lines; symmetrically distributed delicate network light brown, thin network lines |
Ugly nevi | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Ulceration | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Unna nevus | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Uploading files | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Urticara | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Urticaria | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Urticaria vasculitis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
User account | Determines whether or not a user can connect to a computer, network, etc. to perform actions. |
User page | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Variant of spoke wheel area | clod within a clod (concentric clods) |
Vascular | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Vascular lesion | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Vascular lesions | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Vascular structures | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Vasculitis | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Vessel arrangement | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Vessels | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Video | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Videos | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Viral infections | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Volar skin | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Warts | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
White central structureless area | central white patch dermatofibroma |
White central structureless zone | central white patch dermatofibroma |
White scar-like depigmentation | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
White scarlike depigmentation | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
White structureless zone | scar-like depigmentation melanoma |
Wobble sign | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Workshop | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Youtube | This glossary term has not yet been described. |
Zig-zag pattern | lines angulated or polygonal (non-facial skin) |