Path. [mod.L., ad. Gr. σπίλος spot, speck.] A spot or mark on the skin.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), V. 696. It is this occasional dash that constitutes a spilus or mole.
1849. Craig, Spilus,… a congenital spot, appearing to consist of a partial thickening of the rete mucosum.
