tache

tache

 [tahsh] (Fr.)

a spot or blemish.

tache blanche (“white spot”), a white spot on the liver in certain infectious diseases.

t's bleuâtres (“bluish spots”), maculae caeruleae.

tache cérébrale (“cerebral spot”), a congested streak produced by drawing the nail across the skin; a concomitant of various nervous or cerebral diseases.

tache motrice (“motor spot”), a motor nerve ending in which the nerve fibril passes to a muscle cell, where it ends in a slight enlargement.

tache noire (“black spot”), an ulcer covered with a black crust, a characteristic local reaction at the presumed site of the infective bite in certain tickborne rickettsioses.

Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

tache

(tahsh),

A circumscribed discoloration of the skin or mucous membrane, such as a macule or freckle.

[Fr. spot]

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tache

(tahsh)

A circumscribed discoloration of the skin or mucous membrane, such as a macule or freckle.

[Fr. spot]

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012