| stippling | 1. A speckling of a blood cell or other structure with fine dots when exposed to the action of a basic stain, due to the presence of free basophil granules in the cell protoplasm. Synonym: punctate basophilia. 2. An orange peel appearance of the attached gingiva. 3. A roughening of the surfaces of a denture base to stimulate natural gingival stippling. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| geographic stippling of nails | Regularly arranged longitudinal stippling found commonly in psoriasis and occasionally in alopecia areata. See: nail pits. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Ziemann's stippling | Fine dot's seen in erythrocytes in malariae malaria. Synonym: Ziemann's stippling. (05 Mar 2000) |