ALBINO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does albino mean? 

• ALBINO (noun)
  The noun ALBINO has 1 sense:

1. a person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink

  Familiarity information: ALBINO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALBINO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("albino" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

albinistic (of or pertaining to or affected by albinism)

 Context examples 

The Fischer 344 rat has an albino coat and genotype c.

(F344, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The Dunkin Hartley guinea pig has a white coat color (acromelanic albino) and red eyes and requires a nutritional source of vitamin C to sustain normal function.

(Dunkin Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The FVB/N strain has an albino coat with genotype A,B,c,D,P, and has a vigorous reproductive performance.

(FVB/N Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The Hartley Guinea Pig has a white coat color (acromelanic albino) and red eyes and requires a nutritional source of vitamin C to sustain normal function.

(Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

An albino New Zealand rabbit with coat genotype c, VV and eye color genotype np.

(New Zealand White Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign melanocytic neoplasm composed of epithelioid melanocytes with a low nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio and usually containing extensive pigment in non-albino mice.

(Mouse Melanocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The CF-1 mouse has an albino coat with genotype c and is used as a multi-purpose strain for a variety of applications including infectious disease modeling, embryological studies, and safety and efficacy testing.

(CF-1 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from albino mice stocks originally disseminated by Bagg (1913) to Snell in 1932 that has an albino coat with genotype A,b,c.

(BALB/c Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The AKR mouse has an albino coat (genotype a, B, c) and is highly susceptible to leukemias.

(AKR/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The A strain mouse has an albino coat (genotype a,b,c) and is susceptible to carcinogen-induced lung adenomas and cleft palate formation in response to cortisone.

(A/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)