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The International League of Dermatological Societies presents a revised glossary for the description of cutaneous lesions.

Recently, the International League of Dermatological Societies (ILDS) nominated a Committee on Nomenclature to develop a new glossary. The glossary was approved unanimously by the committee after voting by 46 national member societies and representatives from 35 countries.

The glossary contains 13 basic terms (macule, papule, plaque, nodule, wheal, vesicle, bulla, pustule, crust, scale, erosion, excoriation, and ulcer) and more than 100 descriptive terms concerning distribution, configuration, form (accuminate, depressed, domed, flat-topped, papillomatous, pedunculated, raised edge, umbilicated, verruciform), shape, and sensation on palpation (atrophy, compressible, firm, fixed, fluctuant, induration, mobile, pulsatile, rock-hard, rope-like,…

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Mark V. Dahl, MD

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