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Paint tongue

Paint tongue Definition In medicine, patent tongue is a diagnostic sign, not an independent disease symptom. It is one of the typical liver skin signs, as are lacquer lips, spider naevi, palmar and plantar erythema, skin atrophy with telangiectasia, caput medusae and leukonychia (Herold 2017). Oc...

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