pigmented

pigment | American Dictionary

pigment
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈpɪɡ·mənt/
biology
a natural substance that produces color in animals and plants, such as of skin, hair, and leaves
Pigment is also the substance in a paint or dye that gives it its color.

pigmentation

noun[ U ]us/ˌpɪɡ·mənˈteɪ·ʃən/

Examples of pigment

pigment
Spectral tuning of pigments underlying red-green color vision.
Spectral tuning in salamander visual pigments studied with dihydroretinal chromophores.
Two approaches have been implemented to generate spectral extinction functions for cone pigments.
Thus, the question is not why hypopigmented animals have elevated thresholds compared to pigmented animals, but rather, what causes their reduction in rhodopsin expression?
The supernatant was filtered in the presence of polyvinyl polypyrrolidone and activated carbon to eliminate pigments and polyphenols.
Photosynthetic light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes : toward understanding how and why.
Photoreceptors recover from pigment adaptation after replacement 11-cis retinal, supplied by pigment epithelial cells, regenerate the visual pigment, and quench opsin's activity.
The apparent ordering of pigment layers was observed wherever figures overlapped.
However, the retina shrank only by about 1% relative to the pigment epithelium, so this does not seem to be the case.
A back-propagation neural network predicts absorption maxima of chimeric human red0green visual pigments.
The text does not elaborate on the difference between mixtures of pigments and mixtures of spectral light.
Another potential source of luminance-contrast contamination might have arisen due to the nonuniform distribution of macular pigment within the central macular region.
Polymorphism in the number of genes encoding long-wavelength-sensitive cone pigments among males with normal color vision.
Mutually exclusive expression of human red and green visual pigment-reporter transgenes occurs at high frequency in murine cone photoreceptors.
In this paper we investigate the interrelationships between the mineralization, growth and sheath pigment production.
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Collocations withpigment

pigment

These are words often used in combination with pigment.

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anthocyanin pigment
Null mutants for structural genes are in general devoid of anthocyanin pigment in all plant parts whereas regulatory mutants show altered colour patterns relative to wild-type.
black pigment
The blackpigment of this element does not fade to brown.
blue pigment
The cause was found to be the result of an organometallic bluepigment which caused an exothermic catalytic reaction with another additive in the foam.
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