chromatosis

English

Etymology

chromato- (“color”) +‎ -osis (“condition, disease”)

Noun

chromatosis (plural chromatoses)

1. (medicine) Pigmentation, especially unusual pigmentation of human or animal tissue.
   • 1887, Edward Bennet Bronson, A Study of the Considerations Relating to the Classification of Skin Diseases‎^[1], page 16:

     […] “chromatoses corii,” which stands for transudations of coloring matters, and includes the suborders melasmata, dermatocholoses and heterochromatoses, […]

   • 1899, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences‎^[2], volume 118, page 657:

     This pigmentation (chromatosis) involves in most instances more than half of the protoplasm of the cell body, and in many cells it is so great that the chromatic particles (Nissl bodies) and the nuclei of the cells are with difficulty discerned.

   • 1965, C.D. Dummett, “Induced Chromatosis: The Tattoo”, in Quarterly Journal of the National Dental Association‎^[3], volume 24, page 50:

     Insofar as induced intraoral and extraoral chromatosis are concerned, there is a relative dearth of instances in which tatooing has been accomplished.

2. Pigmentation of tissue that normally is not pigmented.
3. Excessive pigmentation of tissue that normally is pigmented.

See also

• hemochromatosis

Anagrams

• choristomas