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café-au-lait spot

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café-au-lait spot
[kaf′ā·ōlā′]
Etymology: Fr, coffee with milk
a pale tan macule the color of coffee with milk. Simultaneous development of several café-au-lait spots is associated with neurofibromatosis, but occasional café-au-lait spots occur normally. See also neurofibromatosis.

spot,
n a small circular area.
spot, café-au-lait,
n a group of brown-pigmented areas of the skin occurring particularly in neurofibromatosis.
spot, effective focal,
n (prolonged focus), the apparent size and shape of the focal spot when viewed from a position in the useful beam. With the use of a suitably inclined anode face, the area from which the useful beam stems is sharply concentrated, if seen from the perspective of the useful beam. See also line, focus.
spot, focal,
n the specific area of the face of the anode or target that is bombarded by the focused electron stream when a radiographic tube is in action. It is usually an insert of tungsten.
spot, Fordyce's,
spot, Koplik's,
n.pr an oral lesion of measles (rubeola); usually occurs on the buccal mucosa opposite the molar teeth as small white or bluish-white spots surrounded by red zones.
spot, pink,


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