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boggy
| brawny (wood-like edema) | e.g. "edema and brawny induration" to describe the legs of someone with chronic venous stasis |
crenated
Just a random list of some descriptive terms that I have found useful or unusual:
| cribriform | sieve-like; containing many perforations |
filiform
folded epithelium
| imbricated | overlapping like tiles or shingles |
mamillated
| moniliform | shaped like a necklace or string of beads |
| ostraceous | latin: oyster – to describe heaped-up scaling such as sometimes occurs in lesions of psoriasis (or in rupioid syphilis) |
| papular urticaria | lesions with the appearance of small insect bites |
| patulous | granuloma faciale lesions are red/brown papules, plaques or nodules that have patulous follicular ostia |
pedunculated
pendulous
| pointing | a carbuncle is a deep folliculitis affecting many follicles with many areas of pointing |
| serrated (or feathered) margins | e.g. in nevus depigmentosus |
| sessile | having no stalk (vs. pedunculated) |
stippled
thready, rolled edge
| vegetative | heaped up collection of scale and crust on the skin surface |
| wheal | represents a variation on the papules or plaques in which the cause of the lesions is dermal edema; no epidermal change; often have central pallor |
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