Mesh term Photosensitivity Disorders
Browse to parent terms:Skin Diseases
Description
Abnormal responses to sunlight or artificial light due to extreme reactivity of light-absorbing molecules in tissues. It refers almost exclusively to skin photosensitivity, including sunburn, reactions due to repeated prolonged exposure in the absence of photosensitizing factors, and reactions requiring photosensitizing factors such as photosensitizing agents and certain diseases. With restricted reference to skin tissue, it does not include photosensitivity of the eye to light, as in photophobia or photosensitive epilepsy.Browse to child terms:
Dermatitis, Photoallergic
Dermatitis, Phototoxic
Hydroa Vacciniforme
Sunburn
Xeroderma Pigmentosum
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