melanocytic nevus

Some sources equate the term mole with "melanocytic nevus".

Nevus cells are the primary component of a melanocytic nevus.

Medically, such "beauty marks" are generally melanocytic nevus, more specifically the compound variant.

Small to medium-sized congenital melanocytic nevus.

The appearance of the congenital melanocytic nevus is similar to those of nevi acquired after birth.

Congenital nevus: a melanocytic nevus present at birth or near birth.

The great disadvantage, seen years later, is the numerous scallop scars, and a very difficult to deal with lesion called a "recurrent melanocytic nevus".

If the lesion is a melanocytic nevus, one has to decide if it is medically indicated or not.

Dysplastic nevus: usually an acquired melanocytic nevus with abnormal features making it difficult to distinguish from a melanoma.

Mole (Congenital melanocytic nevus)

Giant congenital melanocytic nevus (giant hairy nevus or garment nevus).

While one section of the tumor might show benign melanocytic nevus, another section might show features concerning of severe cellular atypia.

Nevoid melanoma is a cutaneous condition that may resemble a Spitz nevus or an acquired or congenital melanocytic nevus.

Acquired melanocytic nevus: a melanocytic nevus acquired later in life, and not at or near birth.

The congenital melanocytic nevus is a type of melanocytic nevus (or mole) found in infants at birth.

Clinical diagnosis of a melanocytic nevus from other nevi can be made with the naked eye using the ABCD guideline, or using dermatoscopy.

Other skin tumors can resemble a melanocytic nevus clinically, such as a seborrheic keratosis, pigmented basal cell cancer, hemangiomas, and sebaceous hyperplasia.

Kamino bodies are commonly observed microscopically with the condition spitz nevi, a benign melanocytic nevus, a type of skin lesion, affecting the epidermis and dermis.

Melanocytic nevus (nevomelanocytic nevus, nevocellular nevus): benign proliferation of melanocytes, the skin cells that make the brown pigment melanin.

If a melanocytic nevus is suspected of being a melanoma, it needs to be sampled or removed and sent for microscopic evaluation by a pathologist by a method called skin biopsy.

Blue nevus (also known as "Blue neuronevus," "Dermal melanocytoma," and "Nevus bleu") is a type of melanocytic nevus.

If over 40 cm projected adult diameter with hypertrichosis, it is sometimes called giant hairy nevus; more usually these largest forms are known as large or giant congenital melanocytic nevus.

Using the term nevus and nevi loosely, most physicians and dermatologists are actually referring to a variant of nevus called the "melanocytic nevus", which are composed of melanocytes.

The congenital melanocytic nevus (plural, nevi) presents as a circumscribed, light brown to black patch or plaque, potentially very heterogeneous in consistency, covering any size surface area and any part of the body.

Moleosophy or moleomancy is a technique of divination and fortune telling based upon the observation and interpretation of bodily marks - primarily those of the melanocytic nevus condition (i.e. moles).