hot spot

hot spot
hot spot n
1) a patch of painful moist inflamed skin on a domestic animal and esp. a dog that starts as a response to a skin irritant (as an allergen or an insect or tick bite), that is rapidly worsened by scratching, chewing, or licking the affected area, and that may become seriously infected if not promptly cleaned and medicated
2) a site in genetic material (as DNA or a chromosome) having a high frequency of mutation or recombination

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1. see temperature s's. 2. the sensitive area of a neuroma. 3. an area of increased density on an x-ray or thermographic film. 4. a region of a genome that has a particularly high tendency for recombination or mutation.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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