pigment
Pigmented skin can mask fungal infections such as ringworm in children, for example.
Pigmented leather is more durable because it is coated with a layer of paint.
It is very likely that individuals with darkly pigmented skin are vitamin D deficient.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Paints, dyes & pigments
annatto
brazilwood
colourant
coverage
dip dye
enamel
henna
lacquer
linseed oil
logwood
marbling
non-drip
paint
pigmentation
sienna
spray gun
thinner
topcoat
turpentine
varnish

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Examples of pigmented

pigmented
Thus, the question is not why hypopigmented animals have elevated thresholds compared to pigmented animals, but rather, what causes their reduction in rhodopsin expression?
Females were allowed to deliver and raise foster offspring (black eyes and pigmented coats).
With increasing flicker frequency, amplitudes were reduced significantly in the albino mice in comparison to the pigmented mice in all three age groups.
Consequently, heavily pigmented subjects would make color matches in the presence of a noticeable saturation difference.
Crossed and uncrossed visual topography in dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the pigmented rat.
In this study, three normal human fibroblast cell lines, as well as normal retinal pigmented epithelial cells, were unaffected.
Normally pigmented trout showed no such increase regardless of light treatment.
This may reflect a difference between pigmented and albino species.
Autoradiography of tritiated proline and fucose transported transneuronally from the eye to the visual cortex in pigmented and albino mice.
Body spinose, pyriform, heavily pigmented, 204- 290 (249) long, 102- 138 (114) wide.
Prior to enucleation, fish were dark adapted for 10 min to facilitate separation of the retina from the pigmented epithelium.
However, this monkey was fully pigmented, had well-developed foveae, and appeared entirely normal.
The animal hemisphere is heavily pigmented and darker in appearance, while the vegetal hemisphere is filled with yolk granules but little pigment.
However, the transposon is occasionally excised from the gene in dividing cells, hence giving clones of pigmented cells on the non-pigmented background.
Puparial cuticle is usually entirely pale but is sometimes slightly to moderately pigmented, especially in autumn in temperate regions.
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