Moles

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is difference? Birthmarks also contain Melanocytes like moles? 's makes pigment in birthmark? Please help im confused.

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Birthmark implies that it is actually present at birth. Most people refer to all their moles as birthmarks, but most moles are acquired during childhood. You can have a mole that is present from birth and so is both a mole and a birthmark. You can have a different growth present at birth which is not a mole but a birthmark. A mole is also called a nevus. It is composed microscopically of mole cells, called melanocytes. Sometimes they are brown, sometimes blue and sometimes normal skin toned.