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pigmentation

pigmentation noun: coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.

Noun

pigmentation (countable and uncountable, plural pigmentations)

  1. Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.
    • It may hence be assumed that this apparently capillary pigmentation should be ascribed merely to an accumulation of pigment-molecules towards one side of the hepatic cells.1855, Carl Wedl, Rudiments of Pathological Histology
    • The neoplasm which, since the time of Laennec, is known by the designation Melanosis, is to be carefully distinguished from this pigmentation of the ordinary structures of the lung, which has been designated Anthracosis.1858, Rudolf Virchow, “The Pathology of Miners' Lung”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 4, page 205

pigmentation meaning in Tamil

pigmentation in Tamil

நிறச்சாயமிடல், நிறமூட்டல், ஏற்றம், கறைப்பிடிப்பு, நிறமி, வண்ணமேற்றம்

Examples of pigmentation in a sentence

  • The morphological changes are accompanied by the establishment of a well-differentiated dorso-ventral pigmentation pattern.
  • Leucophores contain purine in leucosomes and are responsible for white pigmentation in adult medaka.
  • As previously stated, it is pigmented, this pigmentation depending upon the so-called melanocytes.

All 10 example sentences with pigmentation

Forms of pigmentation

pluralpigmentations

Origin of pigmentation

From pigment + -ation.

Words formed from pigmentation

Questions about pigmentation

What does pigmentation mean?
Pigmentation means coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.
What is pigmentation in Tamil?
Pigmentation in Tamil is நிறச்சாயமிடல், நிறமூட்டல், ஏற்றம். See Pigmentation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pigmentation?
Pigmentation is a noun.
What is the plural of pigmentation?
The plural of pigmentation is pigmentations.

Words near pigmentation in the dictionary

  1. pigmentary
  2. pigmentate
  3. pigmentated
  4. pigmentates
  5. pigmentating
  6. pigmentation
  7. pigmentational
  8. pigmentationally
  9. pigmentations
  10. pigmented
  11. pigmenting

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