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- noun organic chemistry An
intermediate in thecatabolism of L-histidine, transformed in theliver by urocanate hydratase (orurocanase ) into 4-imidazolone-5-propionic acid and subsequently toglutamic acid .
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Latin urina ("urine") and canis ("dog"), because first isolated in 1874 from dog urine.
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