nevus

Example Sentences

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And while one hesitates to say “in spite of,” Ms. Naud has cultivated a healthy career in genre films with a very prominent nevus, or birthmark, under her right eye.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Mr Rhodes was born with a large facial birthmark as a result of congenital melanocytic nevus and was left with scarring following multiple surgeries to remove it as a child.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024

“Moles are not superficial — the nevus cells are down in the dermis,” said Robert T. Brodell, a tenured professor and chair of the dermatology department at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022

He had a nevus - a little overgrowth of cells just over the iris of his eye - how on Earth could it have been replicated, she wondered.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2018

Because his hair was shorter in the back, I could now see a nevus on his neck.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan