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vitiligo (n.)

1650s, from Latin vitiglio "a kind of cutaneous eruption, tetter" (Celsus), perhaps with an original sense of "blemish," from PIE *wi-tu-, from root *wei- (3) "vice, fault, guilt" (see vice (n.1)).

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Definitions of vitiligo from WordNet

vitiligo (n.)
an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border);
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