colloid milium
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col·loid mil·i·um
(kol'loyd mil'ē-ŭm), Yellow papules developing in sun-damaged skin of the head and backs of the hands, composed of colloid material in the dermis resembling amyloid but with a different ultrastructure. Filaments less than 2.0 nm in diameter are present that may be a form of elastic tissue produced by actinically damaged fibroblasts.
[L. milium, millet]
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col·loid mil·i·um
(kol'oyd mil'ē-ŭm) Yellow papules developing in sun-damaged skin of the head and backs of the hands, composed of colloid material in the dermis resembling amyloid but with a different ultrastructure.
Synonym(s):
colloid acne,
colloid pseudomilium.
[L. milium, millet]
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