melanocytic nevus
MONDO:0005073Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names melanocytic nevus yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A neoplasm composed of melanocytes that usually appears as a dark spot on the skin.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005073), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- Narrower terms (28)
- Angora hair nevus
- Becker nevus syndrome
- benign melanocytic skin nevus
- blue nevus
- CHILD syndrome
- CLOVES syndrome
- congenital panfollicular nevus
- conjunctival nevus
- didymosis aplasticosebacea
- halo nevus
- hereditary mucosal leukokeratosis
- intradermal nevus
- large congenital melanocytic nevus
- linear verrucous nevus syndrome
- neurocutaneous melanocytosis
- neutrophil actin dysfunction
- Nevada syndrome
- nevus comedonicus syndrome
- nevus of Ito
- nevus of Ota
- nevus, epidermal
- palpebral nevus
- PENS syndrome
- phakomatosis pigmentokeratotica
- pigmented spindle cell nevus
- porokeratotic eccrine ostial and dermal duct nevus
- scalp syndrome
- segmental outgrowth-lipomatosis-arteriovenous malformation-epidermal nevus syndrome
Other names
4 names
Resolves to: melanocytic nevus
- Also called
- melanotic Nevusmolemole of skinnevus