Depigmentation

Doctors may try to restore the normal pigment, which is called repigmentation therapy, or they may try to destroy the remaining pigment cells, called depigmentation therapy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Untreated, it leads to depigmentation, turning the skin purple, skin lesions and blindness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Why did he feel the need to have countless surgeries on his nose, have treatment for "vitiligo" (an autoimmunity in which the body attempts to reject its pigment cells) that involved complete depigmentation of his skin, take so many pain/prescription medications, display bizarre behavior (dangling his baby son from a balcony), wear makeup, and sleep with children in his bed at his "Neverland" California ranch? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Diagnosed with vitiligo, a skin disorder that causes depigmentation in patches of his skin, Jackson bleached his skin, not as a denunciation of his blackness, but rather, as he said, as a way to cosmetically have a more even skin tone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For some reason, the body recognizes those cells as foreign and says these cells don't belong here and they start attacking them, and that's why you get this depigmentation, oftentimes starting off patchy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Treatments really focus on a couple of things, either repigmentation, adding the pigment back, or depigmentation, taking the pigment away. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Other complaints received by the company associated with the patch include reports of blistering, bruising, scarring, hyperactivity and depigmentation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The foreignness of his depigmentation by unknown suns, his nourishment by strange soils, his tongue awkward with the curl of many dialects, his reactions attuned to odd alarms — these things fascinated and rested Nicole — in the moment of meeting she lay on his bosom, spiritually, going out and out .... ❋ Unknown (2003)

The gigantism, the depigmentation ... are all common Arctic adaptations. ❋ Rollins, James, 1961- (2003)

Each adult female worm, thin but more than 1/2 metre in length, produces millions of microfilariae (microscopic larvae) that migrate throughout the body and give rise to a variety of symptoms: serious visual impairment, including blindness; rashes, lesions, intense itching and depigmentation of the skin; lymphadenitis, which results in hanging groins and elephantiasis of the genitals; and general debilitation. ❋ Unknown (2000)

This depigmentation of the skin about the external genitals is permanent. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

Benoquin, a depigmentation cream used to treat the skin disease vitiligo. ❋ Unknown (2011)