Crossword clues for pigmentation
pigmentation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pigmentation \Pig`men*ta"tion\, n. (Physiol.) A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1866, from pigment + -ation. Perhaps modeled on French.
Wiktionary
n. Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.
WordNet
n. the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings
coloration of living tissues by pigment [ant: depigmentation]
Usage examples of "pigmentation".
Venerian lives upon the bottom of an everlasting sea of fog and his thin epidermis, utterly without pigmentation, burns and blisters as frightfully at the least exposure to actinic light as does ours at the touch of a red-hot iron.
Their femaleness seemed one with their person, as much as a smell or a pigmentation.
The existence of accidental nigrities rests on well-established facts which are distinctly different from the pigmentation of purpura, icterus, or that produced by metallic salts.
There is empirical evidence suggesting that papain enzymes help heal uneven pigmentation, fine lines, and brown spots in addition to exfoliating skin.
Nigricans may be defined as a general pigmentation with papillary mole-like growths.
His mind lost itself in visions of the simple, yet subtle, triadic permutations of skin pigmentation: white, black, and all the warmly sexual spectrum that lay between.
Postmortem examinations of leukodermic persons show no change in the suprarenal capsule, a supposed organ of pigmentation.
According to Bantu lore those of us with club feet, albino pigmentation, squint eyes, and humped backs are blessed by the spirits and endowed with physic powers.
This illusion was shattered, however, by the contrast of his white hair and the reddish, almost albinoid pigmentation of his eyes.
Packed together as tightly as the colony was, it resembled some slowly gathering cave disease, a tissue anomaly that carried its own alien pale pigmentation.
White teeth reflect the protest pigmentations of our bioluminescent skin as they tear unto us, dragging us upward .
He stood there on the table rock long after the Ceremyons had left, throwing himself deeper and deeper into the imprint, delving and exploring and testing far beyond anything he had ever done before, changing his microbotic cells to create those of proper function and pigmentation with which to form this time the perfect image: the bronze skin, the brush-cut blond hair with the same fine strands, the corded neck that kept the girth of the head itself all the way to the shoulders, the bulging biceps and chest muscles, the narrow waist, the powerful .