pigmentary
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of pigmentary
1425–75; late Middle English: a dyer < Latin pigmentārius. See pigment, -ary
Example Sentences
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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
Melanō′sis, an abnormal deposition of pigmentary matter in such organs as the spleen, liver, &c.: the condition of the system associated with such, black degeneration.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Liebreich, occurrence of pigmentary retinitis in deaf-mutes, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
Furth and Hugo Schneider showed that a tyrosinase could be obtained from the blood of certain insects, and, acting upon a chromogen present in the blood, converted it into a pigmentary substance of melanin-like nature.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Duyse reports a case of extensive hypertrichosis of the back in a girl aged nine years; her teeth were normal; there was pigmentation of the back and numerous pigmentary nevi on the face.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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