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pigmentation en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree English pigment Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English pigmentation From pigment + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • In order to help understand the pigmentary changes which occur throughout the aging process and in the management of aging skin, it is necessary to examine how pigmentation varies among different ethnicities. 2009, Miranda A. Farage, Textbook of Aging Skin, page 503:

Forms

Deriveds

copigmentation · pigmentational · dyspigmentation · overpigmentation · depigmentation · underpigmentation · repigmentation · dermapigmentation · micropigmentation · malpigmentation · keratopigmentation · hypopigmentation · hyperpigmentation · acropigmentation

Translations (23)

zh 天然顏色 (coloration of tissue) · de Pigmentierung (coloration of tissue) · pt pigmentação (coloration of tissue) · ca pigmentació (coloration of tissue) · bg пигментация (coloration of tissue) · zh 皮肤色素 (coloration of tissue) · it pigmentazione (coloration of tissue) · fr pigmentation (coloration of tissue) · nn pigmentering (coloration of tissue) · fi väritys (coloration of tissue) · fi pigmentaatio (coloration of tissue) · zh 皮膚色素 (coloration of tissue) · es pigmentación (coloration of tissue) · sv pigmentering (coloration of tissue) · ja 色素沈着 (coloration of tissue) · ro pigmentație (coloration of tissue) · el χρώση (coloration of tissue) · nb pigmentering (coloration of tissue) · ru пигмента́ция (coloration of tissue) · hu pigmentáció (coloration of tissue) · ro pigmentare (coloration of tissue) · tr pigmentasyon (coloration of tissue) · fi värjääntyminen (coloration of tissue)