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A bile pigment (coloring) found in bile and gallstones.

A brown, nitrogenous (nonmetallic element) pigment contained in the retinal (eye) epithelium (covering of internal surface); a variety of melanin (pigments largely of animal origin).

A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil from burnt organic matter as a result of decomposition at high temperatures.

A dark grayish-brown or a dusky brownish gray color.

Tinged or darkened with brown as part of an insect's wings.

Darkened or tinged with brown; such as, the wings of an insect.

The act of darkening, or the state of being dark; darkness; obscurity.

1. Any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
2. A golden-brown pigment deposited in muscle and nerve cells at a rate that increases progressively with age.

An abnormal storage of any one of a group of golden-brown fatty pigments deposited in muscle and nerve cells at a rate that increases progressively with age.

1. To confuse; to bewilder; to stupefy: "A person's mind may be obfuscated by liquor."
2. To darken or to make obscure or unclear: "He tried to obfuscate his drunken driving with extraneous information about taking medication; however, the odor of alcohol on his breath was not obfuscating his real condition."
3. Etymology: from Latin obfuscatus and obfuscare, "to darken," from ob, "over" + fuscare, "to make dark"; from fuscus, "dark".

1. Confusion resulting from failure to understand; bewilderment.
2. The condition of being confused or disoriented.
3. A situation of perplexity or confusion.
4. The activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered, mystification.
5. Darkening or obscuring the sight of something; that is, difficult to understand because of not being fully or clearly expressed.

1. Of a dark, dull, or somber color.
2. Dark or drab in color; as, dark and dull clothing.
3. Etymology: from Latin subfuscus, "brownish"; from sub-, "below" + fuscus, "dark".

1. Duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny.
2. Slightly dark, dusky, or somber.