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What is the name of the disorder characterized by the patchy loss of melanin pigment from the skin?

What is the name of the disorder characterized by the patchy loss of melanin pigment from the skin? Correct Answer vitiligo

Vitiligo is a hereditary patchy loss of melanin pigment from the skin. Though the pigment-making cells of the skin, or melanocytes, are structurally intact, they have lost the ability to synthesize the pigment.

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