Pagetoid

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Exhibiting an upward spread of melanocytes into the epidermis.

    "pagetoid Bowen's disease"

Etymology

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.

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