Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Loss or removal of normal pigmentation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The loss or removal of pigment; decolorization; more particularly, the loss of pigment by which the white race became differentiated from all others.
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- noun pathology The loss of the skin's normal
pigmentation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair
Etymologies
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Examples
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Doctors may try to restore the normal pigment, which is called repigmentation therapy, or they may try to destroy the remaining pigment cells, called depigmentation therapy.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Untreated, it leads to depigmentation, turning the skin purple, skin lesions and blindness.
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Untreated, it leads to depigmentation, turning the skin purple, skin lesions and blindness.
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Untreated, it leads to depigmentation, turning the skin purple, skin lesions and blindness.
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Why did he feel the need to have countless surgeries on his nose, have treatment for "vitiligo" (an autoimmunity in which the body attempts to reject its pigment cells) that involved complete depigmentation of his skin, take so many pain/prescription medications, display bizarre behavior (dangling his baby son from a balcony), wear makeup, and sleep with children in his bed at his "Neverland" California ranch?
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Diagnosed with vitiligo, a skin disorder that causes depigmentation in patches of his skin, Jackson bleached his skin, not as a denunciation of his blackness, but rather, as he said, as a way to cosmetically have a more even skin tone.
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For some reason, the body recognizes those cells as foreign and says these cells don't belong here and they start attacking them, and that's why you get this depigmentation, oftentimes starting off patchy.
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Treatments really focus on a couple of things, either repigmentation, adding the pigment back, or depigmentation, taking the pigment away.
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Treatments really focus on a couple of things, either repigmentation, adding the pigment back, or depigmentation, taking the pigment away.
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Other complaints received by the company associated with the patch include reports of blistering, bruising, scarring, hyperactivity and depigmentation.
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