Medical Definition of Pigment cell of skin

1. Special cells in the skin and the eye that synthesise melanin pigments. Clusters of melanocytes often appear on the skin as moles. In fish and reptiles, the pigments are stored in melanosomes (chromatophores) that can be redistributed in the cytoplasm to change pigment patterns. Synonym: melanodendrocyte. Origin: melano-+ G. + kytos, a hollow (cell) (29 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigment Cell Of Skin

pightles
pights
pigless
piglet
piglets
piglike
pigling
piglings
pigmaean
pigman
pigmean
pigmeat
pigmeats
pigment
pigment cell
pigment cell of skin (current term)
pigment cells of iris
pigment cells of retina
pigment cirrhosis
pigment epitheliopathy
pigment epithelium
pigment epithelium of eye
pigment epithelium of optic retina
pigment induration of the lung
pigmentary
pigmentary cirrhosis
pigmentary glaucoma
pigmentary retinopathy
pigmentary syphilid
pigmentate

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