1. SYN: callosity. 2. SYN: exostosis. 3. Induration following a phlegmon. 4. A tumor of cells lining the skin openings of sweat glands. [G. p., callus, fr. poros, stone]
- eccrine p. a p. or acrospiroma of the eccrine sweat glands, usually occurring on the sole of the foot. as a soft reddish nodule composed of basaloid cells and fibrovascular tissue.
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po·ro·ma (pə-roґmə) [Gr. pōrōma callus] a type of adnexal adenoma arising within or on the side of a sweat pore.Medical dictionary. 2011.