pallescence

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English

Noun

pallescence (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being pallescent.
    • 1862, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History:
      [] sometimes even when the tail of the Porcellana is torn away from the thorax, an instantaneous and very striking pallescence of the Lernæodiscus takes place in consequence of the evacuation of the reddish fluid.