See Also: Cafe au lait spot(health)
Cafe au lait spots(health)
cafe-au-lait spot(medicine)
katydid(dictionary)
katydid(encyclopedia)
katydid(medicine)
katydid(dictionary)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
lait(dictionary)
sac-a-lait(dictionary)

cafe-au-lait spot (medicine) and katydid (sh)


cafe-au-lait spot (medicine)


cafe-au-lait spot
<dermatology> A pigmented cutaneous lesion, that can range from light to dark brown, and is due to an excess of melanosomes in the malpighian cells, rather than to an excess of melanocytes.

Caf?au-lait spots are one of the major skin manifestations of neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen disease) with type 1 (peripheral) neurofibromatosis, almost always 6 or more cafe-au-lait spots can be found with at least some exceeding 1.5 cm in diameter. These are often accompanied by freckle-like spots in the axilla.


katydid (sh)




Any of numerous species in several subfamilies of the long-horned grasshopper family (Tettigoniidae).

Generally green with long wings, katydids live on trees, bushes, or grasses, and many species resemble leaves. They are powerful jumpers; many species do not fly but merely flutter their wings during leaps. They feed chiefly on plant matter, though some also eat Other insects. The true katydids of eastern North America are considered great singers; each species has its own repetitive song, which is produced only at night.


Fork-tailed bush katydid (Scudderia furcata).

E.S. Ross