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Melanins
Medical Definition: | Pigments causing darkness in skin, hair, feathers, etc. They are irregular polymeric structures and are divided into three groups: allomelanins in the plant kingdom and eumelanins and phaeomelanins in the animal kingdom. |
Guide Notes: | pigments in skin, hair, feathers; /biosyn /physiol permitted |
Melanins Medical Definitions and Terms
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