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ac·tin·ic ker·a·to·sisa premalignant warty lesion occurring on the sun-exposed skin of the face or hands in aged light-skinned persons; hyperkeratosis may form a cutaneous horn, and squamous cell carcinoma of low-grade malignancy may develop in a small proportion of untreated patients. Synonym(s): senile keratoderma, senile keratoma, senile keratosis, keratosis senilis, senile wart, solar keratosis, verruca plana senilis, verruca seniliskeratosis senilisAn inaccurate synonym for actinic keratosis, which is caused by accumulated ultraviolet light exposure, not by aging. See also: keratosis |