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Pigmentation

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Meaning

Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment..

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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.
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.
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.

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What does pigmentation mean?

Pigmentation means Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment..

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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.

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