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cutis verticis gyrata

cu·tis ver·ti·cis gy·ra·ta [ kytiss vùrtississ jī ráytə ]


noun 
Definition:
 
deep vertical folding of forehead skin: a condition in which the skin of a forehead is thickened by hypertrophy so that it assumes deep vertical folds like the surface of the brain. It occurs in acromegaly and other diseases.

[Early 20th century. < Latin, "skin twisted like a vortex"]
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