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melanism (medicine) and Peters' anomaly (medicine)


melanism (medicine)


melanism


1. An indue development of dark-coloured pigment in the skin or its appendages; the opposite of albinism.

2. <medicine> A disease; black jaundice. See Melna.

Origin: Gr, black.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Peters' anomaly (medicine)


Peters' anomaly -->
anterior chamber cleavage syndrome
<syndrome> A congenital disorder originating from faulty separation of embryonic structures; it results in bilateral central corneal opacities, with an anterior ring attachment of the iridic pupillary border and anterior polar cataracts; associated with short-limbed dwarfism; autosomal dominant inheritance.

See: iridocorneal endothelial syndrome.

Synonym: Peters' anomaly.