This is obviously a prescientific definition already modified in the second revised and expanded edition of this dictionary where it appears as " el que de padres negros, o de casta de ellos, nace muy blanco y rubio, conservando en lo corto y retortijado del pelo y en las facciones del rostro las senales que tienen los negros y los distinguen " (15) (RAE, 1770, p.139). One of the most plausible causes may be that this word is first defined in the Diccionario de autoridades (RAE, 1726, p.169) as " la persona que nace con los cabellosy carne de extremada blancura, por cuya causa ve muy poco, y menos cuanto mas luce el Soly cuanto esta mas cerca de la luz. One wonders, therefore, why this one continually redirects to the adjective albino when the definitions of other diseases do not. The entry remained unchanged to the twenty-second edition (RAE, 2001), "quality of albino". This disease is defined in the twelfth edition of Academy's dictionary (1884).
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