Usually means: Pigmentation process darkening the skin.
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  1. melanization: Merriam-Webster
  2. melanization: Collins English Dictionary
  3. melanization: Wiktionary
  4. Melanization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. melanization: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (biochemistry) Conversion into melanin, or an increase in the concentration of melanin within (a tissue or organism)

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melanisation, eumelanization, pheomelanogenesis, melanosome, chromogenesis, pigmentation, chromatosis, chromatinization, melanotrope, biopigment, more...

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melanisation, eumelanization, pheomelanogenesis, melanosome, chromogenesis, pigmentation, chromatosis, chromatinization, melanotrope, biopigment, more...



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