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pigmentation

[pig-muhn-tey-shuhn] / ˌpɪg mənˈteɪ ʃən /






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Higgsfield, a platform for generating virtual models, gives creators options to add scars, burns, albinism -- a lack of melanin pigmentation -- and vitiligo, which causes white patches on the skin.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

For decades, Iluka has been mining zircon in Australia - a key ingredient in ceramics, and titanium dioxide used in the pigmentation of paint, plastics and paper.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

He comes for treatment to fade pigmentation on his decade-old top surgery scars and treat the keloids along his left forearm where doctors took a skin graft and nerve for his phalloplasty in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

One of them, for example, is responsible for the pigmentation of the maggots' teeth, while another is responsible for the formation of the striped pattern on the fly's abdomen.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2024

It usually took from six weeks to three months to darken the skin pigmentation.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin




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