| Pathologic Process | Shape or Texture |
| Fibroadenoma, mixed tumor, hamartoma | Well-circumscribed or pushing borders |
| Invasive carcinomas, surgical scars | Irregular or spiculated borders |
| Cutaneous melanoma | Jagged or notched borders |
| Mucosal shape of colon carcinoma | Serpiginous borders (winding, snake-like) |
| Lipoma | Smoothly lobulated |
| Bone in degenerative joint disease | Bosselated (rounded protuberances)
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| Cutaneous condyloma | Verrucous (wart-like) |
| Bladder tumors, papillary renal cell carcinoma | Papillary |
| Villous adenoma of the colon | Villous (slender projections) |
| Exposed polished bone surface after loss of cartilage in degenerative joint disease | Eburnated (like ivory) |
| Normal gallbladder mucosa | Velvety |
| Some colon polyps, acrochordon | Pedunculated (with a stalk) |
| Some colon polyps | Sessile (broad-based) |
| Lentigo, café-au-lait spot | Macule (flat lesion less than 5 mm) |
| Vitiligo | Patch (flat lesion greater than 5 mm) |
| Mole | Papule (raised flat topped lesion less than 5 mm) |
| Melanoma | Nodule (raised lesion greater than 5 mm) |
| Psoriasis, seborrheic keratosis | Plaque (raised flat topped lesion greater than 5 mm) |
| Papillary renal cell carcinoma, necrotic tumors | Friable (soft and falling apart or crumbly) |
| Carcinoma invading through skin | Excrescence (an irregular outgrowth) |
| The normal end of the fallopian tube | Fimbriated (fringe-like) |
| A papilloma in a duct | Exophytic (projecting out from a surface) |
| Inverted papilloma | Endophytic (projecting within a space) |
| Pleural plaque | Scabrous (covered with small projections and rough to the touch) |
| Fetus papyraceous (a fetus found within the placental membranes of a twin) | Papyraceous (like parchment or paper) |
