Converse of object

• produce: This way your body will not need to produce more melanin.

• contain: Black skin contains more melanin, which is a brown pigment.

• call: Skin Color The color of skin depends primarily on a pigment called melanin.

• make: There is no known way to help children make more melanin.

• have: We do have melanin in our eyes but I don't think it's on the surface layer!

• form: And this is the reason why some people tan faster than others - we form melanin at differing rates.

Converse of subject

• absorb: For example, with hair removal, the light energy is absorbed by the melanin ( color ) in the hair.

Adjective modifier

• more: Black skin contains more melanin, which is a brown pigment.

• protective: Sometimes described as Olive, it is pale brown thanks to its naturally high levels of protective melanin.

• less: Fair hair has less melanin and consequently less heat is produced with less certainty of permanent destruction of the hair follicles.

Modifies a noun

• pigment: Their function in the skin is to produce melanin pigment, which protects the skin from damage by ultraviolet rays.

• synthesis: A second modality utilizes metabolic pathways of melanin synthesis to target melanoma cells specifically.

• production: UV damage to skin cell nuclei releases signal molecules which stimulate increased melanin production.

• pigmentation: Epidemiologic study of excessive oral melanin pigmentation with special references to the influence of tobacco habits.

• granule: And the presence of melanin granules in the blood is an unmistakable sign.

• content: The melanin content of the tumor was high in the periphery and relatively low in the center.

Noun used with modifier

• pigment: High levels of the skin pigment melanin reduce the risk of common skin cancer for people with darker skin.

• skin: High levels of the skin pigment melanin reduce the risk of common skin cancer for people with darker skin.

Preposition: in

• skin: Sunburn occurs, when there is not enough melanin in the skin to absorb all the UV rays reaching the skin.

• shaft: The laser light is selectively absorbed in the melanin in the hair shaft, whilst passing harmlessly through the surrounding tissue.