pigmentary
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of pigmentary
1425–75; late Middle English: a dyer < Latin pigmentārius. See pigment, -ary
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His team re-simulated the Turing mechanism, this time accounting for how the valleys between lizard scales might impede the flow of signals between pigmentary cells of different colors.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2017
The same conclusion is reached when we analyse the nature of mimetic resemblance and realize how complex it really is, being made up of colours, both pigmentary and structural, pattern, form, attitude and movement.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
On the inner surface of the skin, except in the portions coloured black, we observe a pigmentary layer, a coating here red, there yellow or white.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The internal surface of the choroid, or rather the pigmentary layer which covers it, is lined by the retina or nervous tunic upon which the images of the objects that we see are focussed.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
Circumscribed pigmentary deposits and seborrhœa, with degeneration, are also noted.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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