Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of lentigo, 1.

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  • noun Plural form of lentigo.

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Examples

  • Preexisting brown spots benign nevi and lentigines, or freckles were lasered and later tested to see if they were converted into cancerous lesions.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • Preexisting brown spots benign nevi and lentigines, or freckles were lasered and later tested to see if they were converted into cancerous lesions.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • Preexisting brown spots benign nevi and lentigines, or freckles were lasered and later tested to see if they were converted into cancerous lesions.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • However, the brown spots seen in this image will eventually come to the surface in the form of solar lentigines, more commonly known as freckles or "liver spots".

    Lauren Fornes: Confession of an Aesthetician 2008

  • "Solar lentigines have a larger number of pigment cells and the pigment goes deeper," Goodlerner says.

    Out, Out Damn Spots 2007

  • Technically, these changes in skin color are called senile or solar lentigines and they're usually brought on by sun exposure.

    Out, Out Damn Spots 2007

  • Older treatments — such as peeling agents like trichloroacetic acid — also take off lentigines, says Goodlerner, but they are not as predictable as lasers, which go deeper into the skin.

    Out, Out Damn Spots 2007

  • The official name for your liver spots is hyperpigmented lentigines.

    Diary Palahniuk, Chuck 2003

  • Almost everybody can acquire age spots, which also goes by the name liver spots, sun spots or solar lentigines.

    EzineArticles 2010

  • Using its Penetrating Therapeutics ™ technologies, Obagi Medical's products are designed to improve penetration of agents across the skin barrier for common and visible skin conditions in adult skin including chloasma, melasma, senile lentigines, acne vulgaris and sun damage.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

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