mongolian spot

spot (spot) a circumscribed area; a small blemish; a macula.

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Bitot's spots  foamy gray, triangular spots of keratinized epithelium on the conjunctiva, associated with vitamin A deficiency.

blind spot 

1. optic disk.

2. mental scotoma.

café au lait spots  macules of a distinctive light brown color, such as occur in neurofibromatosis and Albright's syndrome.

cherry-red spot  the choroid appearing as a red circular area surrounded by gray-white retina, as viewed through the fovea centralis in Tay-Sachs disease.

cold spot  see temperature s's.

cotton-wool spots  white or gray soft-edged opacities in the retina, seen in hypertensive retinopathy, lupus erythematosus, and other conditions.

Forschheimer spots  a fleeting exanthem consisting of discrete rose spots on the soft palate sometimes seen in rubella just prior to the onset of the skin rash.

germinal spot  the nucleolus of an oocyte.

hot spot 

1. see temperature s's.

2. the sensitive area of a neuroma.

3. an area of increased density on an x-ray or thermographic film.

Koplik's spots  irregular, bright red spots on the buccal and lingual mucosa, with tiny bluish-white specks in the center of each; seen in the prodromal stage of measles.

liver spot 

1. a lay term for any of the brownish spots on the face, neck, or backs of the hands in many older people.

2. (pl.) tinea versicolor.

Mariotte's spot  optic disk.

milky spots  aggregations of macrophages in the subserous connective tissue of the pleura and peritoneum.

mongolian spot  a smooth, brown to grayish blue nevus, consisting of an excess of melanocytes, typically found at birth in the sacral region in Asians and dark-skinned races; it usually disappears during childhood.

pain spots  spots on the skin where alone the sense of pain can be produced by a stimulus.

rose spots  an eruption of rose-colored spots on the abdomen and thighs during the first seven days of typhoid fever.

Roth's spots  round or oval white spots sometimes seen in the retina early in the course of subacute bacterial endocarditis.

Soemmering's spot  macula lutea.

Tardieu's spots  spots of ecchymosis under the pleura after death by suffocation.

temperature spots  spots on the skin normally anesthetic to pain and pressure but sensitive respectively to heat and cold.

yellow spot  macula retinae.

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mongolian spot

n.

Any of a number of dark-bluish or mulberry-colored spots on the lower back, observed in newborn infants, that enlarge for a short time after birth and then gradually recede. Also called blue spot.

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Mongolian spot

[mong·gō′lē·ən]

Etymology: Mongol, Asian ethnic group; ME, spotte, stain

a benign bluish-black macule, between 2 and 8 cm, occurring over the sacrum and on the buttocks of some newborns. It is especially common in African-Americans, Native Americans, southern Europeans, and Asian-Americans and usually disappears during early childhood.

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mongolian spot [mon-gōl´e-an]

a smooth, brown to grayish blue nevus consisting of an excess of melanocytes, typically found at birth in the sacral region in East Asians, Blacks, American Indians, and many southern Europeans; it usually disappears during childhood.

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mongolian spot

Mongolian spot Dermatology A large slate-gray–due to the Tyndall effect–macule with variable margins, usually over the presacral regions, posterior thighs, legs, back, shoulders, most common in blacks and Asians, less in whites, often fading with age–persisting in 4% of Japanese adolescents Clinical significance None