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Albino

a human being or animal abnormally white, with pinkish eyes. The phenomenon must have struck most people in the case of white mice and white rabbits. A human albino has the skin preternaturally fair. The hairs on the head and body are white, the eyes a pinkish appearance; moreover they are painful when exposed to light of even the ordinary intensity.

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