PIGMENTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pigmentation mean? 

• PIGMENTATION (noun)
  The noun PIGMENTATION has 2 senses:

1. the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings

2. coloration of living tissues by pigment

  Familiarity information: PIGMENTATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIGMENTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

deposit; deposition (the natural process of laying down a deposit of something)

Derivation:

pigment (acquire pigment; become colored or imbued)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coloration of living tissues by pigment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

coloration; colouration (appearance with regard to color)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pigmentation"):

chromatism (abnormal pigmentation)

melanoderma (abnormally dark skin caused by increased deposits of melatonin)

Antonym:

depigmentation (absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair)

Derivation:

pigment (acquire pigment; become colored or imbued)

 Context examples 

Individuals who have the heaviest constitutive pigmentation, especially dark skinned black individuals.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type VI, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A specimen that exhibits a yellowish pigmentation due to jaundice.

(Icteric Specimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Localized loss of skin pigmentation, often in patches.

(Leukoderma, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include dark urine, skin pigmentation, and arthritis.

(Ochronosis, NCI Thesaurus)

More complex biochemistry means more ways to make feather pigmentation.

(Colorful bird feathers offer evolutionary clues, National Science Foundation)

An alteration in skin pigmentation relative to normal for a specific age, mouse strain, and skin site.

(Disorders of Pigmentation of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

By measuring the skin pigmentation, researchers could learn about the underlying genomic alterations that were responsible for difference in skin pigmentation.

(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)

Previous research has shown that GSLs are common in the cells that comprise the uppermost layer of the skin, and also in cells involved in pigmentation of the eyes, skin and hair.

(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Tumors of the iris characterized by increased pigmentation of melanocytes.

(Iris Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Yellow pigmentation of the skin, mucous membranes, and the eyes due to hyperbilirubinemia.

(Jaundice, NCI Thesaurus)