serpiginous.

Extending or progressing in an irregular winding pattern.

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• serpiginous lesion

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A serpiginous lesion crossed the skin.

The mark’s serpiginous edge advanced slowly.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.