pigmentary

American  

[pig-muhn-ter-ee] / ˈpɪg mənˌtɛr i /

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.

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Etymology

Origin of pigmentary

1425–75; late Middle English: a dyer < Latin pigmentārius. See pigment, -ary

Example Sentences

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

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)

Thence result the formation of coagula in the congested vessels and deposits of pigmentary matter.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

N�vus, nē′vus, n. a birth-mark: a congenital growth strictly on a part of the skin, whether a pigmentary n�vus or mole, or a vascular naevus or overgrowth of capillary blood-vessels—also Mother-spot or Birth-mark—also N�ve, Neve:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.

From The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)