Definitions
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- noun medicine Absence of
pigmentation , especially in the skin or blood
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- noun an absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells
Etymologies
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a- + -chromia
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Parasitic achromia achromatic epidermomycoses (pityriasis versicolor).
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