reticuloid

Meanings

Adjective

• Resembling or suggestive of, but not, a reticulum; that is, not reticulate or reticular but seeming so.
• Resembling or suggestive of, but not, reticulosis; that is, not leukemic or lymphomatous but seeming so.

Noun

• A type of dermatitis resembling reticulosis but of different cause and character, usually actinic (caused by UV rays, usually from extensive sun exposure).

Origin

• reticulum + -oid; the noun sense is a nominalization of the adjective sense.