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Xanthoderma
2. Any yellow coloration of the skin. Xanthoderma is also known as yellow skin. Xanthoderma comes from the Greek word "xanthos" meaning "yellow," and the Greek word "derma" meaning "skin." Put the two words together and you have "yellow skin."
1. The occurrence of yellow colored patches in the skin that resemble a condition known as xanthoma. However, whereas xanthoma on the skin takes the form of yellow plaques or nodules, xanthocromia does not. Plaques and nodes are both area on or in the body that appears different from other tissue, with nodules being more swollen. In this sense of the word, xanthoderma is also known as xanthochromia, cholesterodoma, xanthochroia, xanthopathy, yellow disease, and yellow skin.
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