Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The colorless mother-substance or chromogen of urobilin.
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- noun biochemistry A colourless product of
bilirubin reduction, formed in theintestines bybacterial action.
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- noun a chromogen formed in the intestine from the breakdown of bilirubin; yields urobilins on oxidation; some is excreted in the feces and some is resorbed and excreted in bile or urine
Etymologies
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urobilin + -o- + -gen
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Examples
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Breath analysis is the most rapid and sensitive detection method. 12 Urinary urobilinogen is the most sensitive indicator of liver stress produced by acute TCE poisoning. 4
poison prevention for Delaware, Lehigh Valley, S.E. Pennsylvania 2010
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“Gut microbes encode the enzyme bilirubin reductase that converts bilirubin into a colorless byproduct called urobilinogen,” Hall explained in said in a statement.
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