punctate
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Superficial, usually epidermal, linear or punctate loss of tissue; as, for example, ordinary scratch-marks.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Clinical Features.—The less severe forms of contusion are associated with ecchymosis, numerous minute and discrete punctate hæmorrhages being scattered through the superficial layers of the skin, which is slightly œdematous.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
P. 3-5 cm. soon plane, minutely punctate, tawny, margin striate; g. adnate, pallid; s. 3-4 cm. hollow, coloured like p.; milk whitish, watery; sp. 9-10. var. pauper, Karst.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. umbil. squamulose; g. arcuate, white; s. floccosely punctate, base with spreading fawn-coloured down; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
All three shell specimens are edge-incised, and two have punctate designs.
From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by William C. Massey
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