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Colored; specifically (Biol.), filled or imbued with pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules.

A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.

ple of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented.

Development of dark-pigmented tumors.

The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.

A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.

y. Sir W. Scott. Pigment cell (Physiol.), a small cell containing coloring matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the skin of fishes, reptiles, etc.

One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophoræ of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.

The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat.

A skin disease characterized by the presence of numerous small pigmented spots resembling freckles, with which are subsequently mingled spots of atrophied skin.