title: Cutaneous pigmentation.
abstract: The color of an individual's skin is an inherited trait, poorly understood in any real genetic sense and likely to remain so in the outbred populace. Pigmentary anomalies are assignable either to hyperpigmentation (melanoderma, ceruloderma) or hypopigmentation (leukoderma). This article briefly reviews such anomalies.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010859:Pigmentation Disorders; D012880:Skin Pigmentation