acanthosis

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English

Etymology

From acanth- +‎ -osis (diseased condition).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

acanthosis (plural acanthoses)

  1. (pathology) A benign abnormal thickening of the stratum spinosum, or prickle cell, layer of the epidermis.[2]

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  1. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN)
  2. ^ 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.