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Etiolate (medicine)


etiolate


1. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

2. <medicine> To become pale through disease or absence of light.

Origin: F. Etioler to blanch.

1. To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

2. <medicine> To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.

Source: Websters Dictionary