tache
(tahsh)
French word meaning spot.
tache cérébrale
(“cerebral spot”), a congested streak produced by drawing the nail across the skin; a concomitant of various nervous or cerebral
diseases.
tache noire
(“black spot”), an ulcer covered with a black crust, a characteristic local reaction at the presumed site of the infective
bite in certain tickborne rickettsioses.

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