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Oral leukoplakia

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A thickened white patch on the oral mucosa that cannot be rubbed off. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17944749 ]

Term info

Label

Oral leukoplakia

Synonyms
  • Oral idiopathic keratosis
  • Oral idiopathic leukoplakia
  • Oral idiopathic white patch
  • Oral leucoplakia
  • Oral leukokeratosis
  • Oral leukoplasia
  • Oral white patch
  • Oral white plaque
  • leukokeratosis
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hposlim_core

layperson term
Oral white patch [ ORCID : 0000-0001-5889-4463 ]

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The definition of oral leukoplakia states that the lesion be characterized clinically or histologically as any other condition, and is not associated with any physical or chemical causative agent except tobacco. Leukoplakia is a precancerous lesion, i.e. a morphologically altered tissue in which cancer is more likely to occur than in its apparently normal counterpart.

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human_phenotype

id

HP:0002745

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