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Albinism vs Piebaldism - What's the difference?

albinism | piebaldism |

As nouns the difference between albinism and piebaldism

is that albinism is congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino while piebaldism is (medicine) a rare autosomal dominant disorder of melanocyte development, whose common characteristics include a congenital white forelock, scattered normally-pigmented and hyperpigmented macules, and a triangular depigmented patch on the forehead.

albinism

Noun

  • Congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino.
  • Synonyms

    * albinoism

    See also

    * axanthism * leucism * melanism * vitiligo English words suffixed with -ism

    piebaldism

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia piebaldism)
  • (medicine) A rare autosomal dominant disorder of melanocyte development, whose common characteristics include a congenital white forelock, scattered normally-pigmented and hyperpigmented macules, and a triangular depigmented patch on the forehead.
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