Usually means: Benign skin lesion, often pigmented.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. nevus: Merriam-Webster
  2. nevus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nevus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nevus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nevus: Vocabulary.com
  6. nevus: Wordnik
  7. nevus: Wiktionary
  8. nevus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nevus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nevus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. nevus: Dictionary.com
  12. Nevus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. nevus: Rhymezone
  14. nevus: FreeDictionary.org
  15. nevus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. nevus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. nevus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nevus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. nevus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Nevus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  7. nevus: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. nevus: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  9. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  10. nevus: Medical dictionary
  11. Nevus: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nevus: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nevus)

noun:  (anatomy) Any of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin.

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