Meaning of chromatosis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pigmentation, especially unusual pigmentation of human or animal tissue.
2. Pigmentation of tissue that normally is not pigmented.
3. Excessive pigmentation of tissue that normally is pigmented.

Examples

“[…]“chromatoses corii,” which stands for transudations of coloring matters, and includes the suborders melasmata, dermatocholoses and heterochromatoses,[…]”

“This pigmentation (chromatosis) involves in most instances more than half of the protoplasm of the cell body, and in many cells it is so great that the chromatic particles (Nissl bodies) and the nuclei of the cells are with difficulty discerned.”

“Insofar as induced intraoral and extraoral chromatosis are concerned, there is a relative dearth of instances in which tatooing has been accomplished.”

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