Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to autochrome photography.
It regularly reproduced pictures taken on autochromic plates back in the Twenties.
1981, Petr Tausk, Textbook of Press Photography, page 55 - not comparableHaving all pigmentation as an integral part, as opposed to being penetrated by external tissue that contributes pigmentation.
[…] the chromophoric or color-carrying group of atoms and the autochromic or color-intensifying group.
1928, John Arthur Wilson, The Chemistry of Leather Manufacture, volume 2, page 8843 more examples
There is no necessity for regarding some eyes as »exochromic«, and others as »autochromic«, since there is no evidence to show that pigmented mesoderm cells have forced their way through the basal membrane into the eye;
1866, Insect Anatomy, page 684If my views as to the pigment cells are correct, the first formation of pigment by the cells of the vesicle and the later intrusion of the pigment cells from the mesoblast indicates that the present exochromic eye of Julus was derived from an earlier autochromic eye.
1889, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of LondonIt has been known for ten years (owing to the work of Geddes and others) that another species of Convoluta (C. schultzii) contained chlorophyll, but whether the chlorophyll is autochromic, that is a product of the animal's activity; or exochromic, and due to symbiotic unicellular algæ, is a question which can scarcely be considered as thoroughly settled.
1895, Sir William Abbott Herdman, Report Upon the Fauna of Liverpool Bay and the Neighboring Seas, page 59
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