autochromic

Adjective

autochromic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to autochrome photography.
   • It regularly reproduced pictures taken on autochromic plates back in the Twenties.1981, Petr Tausk, Textbook of Press Photography, page 55
2. Having all pigmentation as an integral part, as opposed to being penetrated by external tissue that contributes pigmentation.
   • There is no necessity for regarding some eyes as »exochromic«, and others as »autochromic«, since there is no evidence to show that pigmented mesoderm cells have forced their way through the basal membrane into the eye;1866, Insect Anatomy, page 684
   • If my views as to the pigment cells are correct, the first formation of pigment by the cells of the vesicle and the later intrusion of the pigment cells from the mesoblast indicates that the present exochromic eye of Julus was derived from an earlier autochromic eye.1889, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London