actinic keratosis

1. 1.

   an overgrowth of skin layers resulting from extended exposure to the sun

   Broaderkeratosis

Questions about actinic keratosis

What does actinic keratosis mean?

actinic keratosis means "an overgrowth of skin layers resulting from extended exposure to the sun".

Is actinic keratosis a common word?

actinic keratosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.