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
To the question for many of the minor marks and slight deformities—naevi vascular and pigmentary, extra fingers, slight overgrowths, special peculiarities of bone and soft tissues—no satisfactory answer can be given.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Appetite disappears, the amount of carbonic acid exhaled decreases, and the hair grows white, owing to the interruption of the pigmentary secretion.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
One unquestionable cause of this kind comes into action in regard to pigmentary selection.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis
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