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port-wine stain

noun as in birthmark

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Mutations in the skin, for example, occasionally resulted in unusual pigment patterns such as port-wine stain birthmarks.

With more work, they believe the films could be used to mask port-wine stain birthmarks, to protect the face from UV rays, or to treat skin disorders such as eczema.

She was concerned about a purple splotch on my cheek, thinking it was a port-wine stain.

Horace was by inclination a private man, nearing fifty now, with a sprawling port-wine stain on the left side of his forehead that he often fingered unconsciously.

Each featured a different actor—one who looked healthy, one who had a port-wine stain birthmark, and one who had flulike symptoms.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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