Acheilia

In medicine, names of diseases that have Greek roots are often used. Unfortunately, it is often forgotten that not all readers are well acquainted with specific terms, and in order to make it clearer for readers, Latin letters are added to the designation of the disease or some of them are replaced with understandable synonyms.

At the same time, most of the names of diseases were invented in ancient times. Many of them arose in the process of healing animals; later the name of the disease was attached to a disease that requires treatment in humans.

Acheilia is a rare form of lip cancer that manifests itself as either a deep wound behind the lower lip or Kaposi's sarcoma growing through the edge of the lip. Although lip cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, it is rarely diagnosed in the early stages, which leads to faster disease progression and worse outcomes. This explains the rarity of this type of cancer in our country. One of the symptoms of an oncological lesion of the lower lip is the presence of an ulcer with fuzzy edges, covered with a crust or a large amount of gray plaque. Depending on which area of ​​the lip is affected, pain or pain in the area may occur.