lichen sclerosus

English

Noun

lichen sclerosus (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A chronic inflammatory skin disease, often affecting the genitals.

   Synonym: (initialism) LS

   Hyponym: balanitis xerotica obliterans

   • 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     So when, in 2018, a gynecologist recommended a vulval biopsy to check for signs of cancer, she hesitated. The doctor suspected that the whitish speck of skin that Gillian had found next to her clitoris was lichen sclerosus, a skin condition that is usually benign.