actinic elastosis

actinic elastosis
a type of photodamage to the skin seen especially in light-skinned individuals, marked by inelasticity, thinning (or sometimes thickening), wrinkling, dryness with fine scaling, and variable hyperpigmentation or other blemishes. Called also farmers' or sailors' skin and senile or solar e.

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