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English
Etymology
acanth- + -osis (“diseased condition”)
Pronunciation
Noun
acanthosis (plural acanthoses)
- (pathology) A benign abnormal thickening of the stratum spinosum, or prickle cell, layer of the epidermis.
Derived terms
Translations
abnormal thickening of the stratum spinosum
References
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN)
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “acanthosis”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.