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Melanin

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A black pigment found in the pigment bearing cells of the skin particularly in the skin of the negro in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina then called fuscin in the outer layer of the choroid and elsewhere It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin

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