Each joint was crowned with a little gray stone of skin, and each heel was like the battered end of a club.

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The hair may be yellow, auburn, ginger or red, the eyes can be blue-gray or tan, and the skin is white at birth.

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Meanwhile, during question time, Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray accused Mr Salmond of sacking Ms Hyslop "to save his own skin".

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Mongolian spots (technically named congenital dermal melanocytosis) are flat bluish-green, gray or light brown areas where cells called melanocytes have been trapped in a layer of the skin called the dermis.

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