Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Albinism

Albinism

Genetic condition caused by the body's inability to manufacture pigments; an autosomal recessive trait.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
Improve it
  • Part of Speech: noun
  • Synonym(s):
  • Blossary:
  • Industry/Domain: Biology
  • Category: Anatomy
  • Company:
  • Product:
  • Acronym-Abbreviation:
More
Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

More

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Related terms

albinism
Health care; 

The congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair

albinism
Natural environment; Coral reefs

Hereditary absence of pigment in an organism. Albino animals have no color in their skin, scales, hairs and eyes. The term is also used for absence of chlorophyll in plants. Some ...

albinism
Biology; Cell biology

Genetic condition caused by the body's inability to manufacture pigments; an autosomal recessive trait.

albinism
Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Hereditary absence of pigment in an organism. Albino animals have no colour in their skin, hair and eyes. The term is also used for absence of chlorophyll in plants.

albinism
Anthropology; Physical anthropology

The genetically inherited condition in which there is a marked deficiency of pigmentation in skin, hair, and eyes. An individual with these traits is an "albino. " Since the gene ...

albinism
Consumer services; Hair salons

A recessive hereditary trait which presents as white hair due to defective melanin production thought to be caused by a mutation within genes. Albinos have no melanin pigment and ...

foramen caecum
Biology; Anatomy

The dorsum of the tongue is convex and marked by a median sulcus, which divides it into symmetrical halves; this sulcus ends behind, about 2. 5 cm from the root of the organ, in ...

olfactory bulb
Biology; Anatomy

The olfactory bulb is a structure of the vertebrate forebrain involved in olfaction, the perception of odors.

apex
Biology; Anatomy

A narrowed or pointed end of an anatomical structure.

tongue
Biology; Anatomy

The tongue is a muscle on the floor of the mouth that manipulates food for chewing and swallowing (deglutition).

olfactory membrane
Biology; Anatomy

The portion of the nasal mucosa having olfactory receptor cells and olfactory glands.

oesophagus
Biology; Anatomy

The esophagus or oesophagus, sometimes known as the gullet, is an organ in vertebrates which consists of a muscular tube through which food passes from the pharynx to the ...

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: People Category: Authors

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

(1836-1870) Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish post-romanticist writer of poetry and short ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Stylistic Devices

Category: Arts   2 37 Terms

Loc Styles

Category: Fashion   1 5 Terms

Browers Terms By Category

TERMS

SOCIAL

EXTRAS

SOLUTIONS