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ALBINO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("albino" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
albinistic (of or pertaining to or affected by albinism)
Context examples:
He was, to my surprise, no Indian, but a white man; indeed, I may say a very white man, for he was flaxen-haired and had some characteristics of an albino.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Derived from Buffalo stock of H. Morris to the NIH in 1950 and disseminated from Charles River since 1998, the Buffalo is a white albino rat, genotype c.
(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Derived from Wistar stock by the laboratory of Dr. Lewis at the Wistar Institute in the 1940s and 1950s, the Lewis is a white albino rat with genotype a, TyrC.
(Lewis, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
Derived from Buffalo stock of H. Morris to the NIH in 1950 and disseminated from Charles River since 1998, the Buffalo is a white albino rat, genotype c. The incidence of spontaneous tumor formation includes anterior pituitary and adrenal cortex in upwards of 30% of aged rats.
(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
Albino outbred guinea pig belonging to the English (short-haired) breed.
(Dunkin Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
Thought to be wild albino in origin, this strain was obtained by Carworth farms from a Missouri laboratory.
(CF-1 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)
