For a few months, likely due to the higher magnifying power of my new reading glasses, I've been noticing the skin on my arms resembles a mosaic with tiny images not unlike the Indian mosaics pictured below, except of course, not in colors.
@ElwoodBlues I don't have the artistic vocabulary to describe it properly.
It looks like a repetition of the same images which resemble cuneiform. Most visible are taller than wide, with the same symbol repeated over and over, in lines like below.
I am concerned I may have overlooked a message I was meant to convey...😅🥹
@Mamapolo2016 I hate to mention this, but considering how there appears to be intelligence behind the patterns, could they have been caused by tiny insects looking for places to hide or (i really hate to say this) places to hide their food or lay their eggs?
@Mamapolo2016I recall an uncle having strange pattern on his neck, like a dozen or two tiny rows of tiny-tiny bumps, all in rows. Sort of like the surface of a rasp or wood file, but skin color and blended to the adjacent skin except for a little roughness.
Genetic mosaicism is the presence of DNA alterations in only some of the body's cells. A person with mosaicism has a mixture of normal and mosaic DNA in the same type of cells (most of the samples tested in GWAS came from blood or cheek cells). Like a mosaic piece of art, mosaicism in humans is varied and complex. - Feb 13, 2017
In other words, for some people, not all their cells carry the exact same DNA. Which means not all cells of a given type express the same proteins. It can cause anything from (some) port wine stains on the skin to intersex genitalia. It may also be invisible in most cases.
@Mamapolo2016 It can mean hermaphrodite or partial hermaphrodite.
BTW, I assume you were kidding, but if you were serious, just because our aging skin starts to look like mosaics, it doesn't mean a diagnosis of mosaicism.
