ALBINO
\albˈiːnə͡ʊ], \albˈiːnəʊ], \a_l_b_ˈiː_n_əʊ]\
Definitions of ALBINO
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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A person, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the white animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.
By Oddity Software
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A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state.
By Noah Webster.
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A person or animal whose skin and hair are unnaturally white, and pupil of the eye red:-pl. ALBINOS.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A person with congenital deficiency of pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes; any animal with a similar deficiency on its body; a plant with colourless chromatophores, due to absent chloroplasts or undeveloped chromoplasts.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A Spanish word applied to individuals of the human race who have the skin and hair white; the iris very pale, bordering on red; and the eyes so sensible that they cannot bear the light of day. This condition, which has been called Leuccethio'pia, Alpho'sis Aethiop'ica, Albino'is'mus, Albinis'mus, Al'binism, Kakerlakism, Leucopathi'a, Leuco'sis, is seen more frequently in the Negro. Both sexes are exposed to it. It does not seem to be true that there are tribes of Albinos in the interior of Africa.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A person in whom the normal pigmentation of the epidermis, the hair, the iris, and the choroid is congenitally deficient, the skin being uncommonly white, the hair yellowish, resembling flax or silk in color; and the eyes pinkish and more or less affected with photophobia, blepharospasm, and occasionally, nystagmus. [Span, or Port., Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe