Explainer: what are birthmarks and why do we get them?
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
Birthmarks are not scuff marks caused by the physical process of birth.Ben Crowe/Flickr, CC BY-SABirthmark is the term used to describe any of the large number of common skin marks that are present at birth or appear soon afterwards. It doesn’t mean they were caused by the physical process of birth.
Birthmarks generally result from an...






