Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as stercorin.
  • noun A term formerly applied to a mixture of fats contained in dried blood-serum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A peculiar fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterin, etc.
  • noun A body found in fecal matter and thought to be formed in the intestines from the cholesterin of the bile; -- called also stercorin, and stercolin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biochemistry A fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterin, etc.
  • noun biochemistry A body found in faeces and thought to be formed in the intestines from the cholesterin of the bile.

Etymologies

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serum and Latin oleum ("oil").

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