benign melanocytic skin nevus
MONDO:0044794Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names benign melanocytic skin nevus yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A benign, circumscribed proliferation of melanocytes in the skin. Variants include the Spitz nevus, halo nevus, blue nevus, and balloon cell nevus.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0044794), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (2)
Other names
7 names
Resolves to: benign melanocytic skin nevus
- Also called
- benign melanocytic nevusbenign melanocytic nevus of skinbenign melanocytic nevus of the skinbenign molebenign nevus of skinbenign nevus of the skinbenign skin nevus