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Definition of Hematin
1. Noun. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
Generic synonyms: Pigment
Substance meronyms: Haemoglobin, Hb, Hemoglobin, Myoglobin, Cytochrome
Definition of Hematin
1. n. Hematoxylin.
Definition of Hematin
1. Noun. Hemoglobin with iron in ferric state. ¹
2. Noun. Hemin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hematin
1. heme [n -S] - See also: heme
Medical Definition of Hematin
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1. Haematoxylin.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hematin
Literary usage of Hematin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical Anatomy by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"In the decomposition of hemoglobin containing oxygen hematin at once results,
oxygen being bound. On the other hand, oxygen-free hemoglobin yields in a ..."
2. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"hematin is only rarely found. In order to demonstrate its presence, the urine is
rendered strongly alkaline with ammonia, filtered, and the filtrate ..."
3. A Laboratory Manual of Physiological Chemistry by Elbert William Rockwood (1919)
"Like oxyhemoglobin, however, it is changed by weak acids or alkalies into hematin
and a simple protein. Like oxyhemoglobin, too, it is converted by reducing ..."
4. A Practical Handbook of Medical Chemistry Applied to Clinical Research and by William Houston Greene (1880)
"After standing for some time, the latter deposits hematin, which is collected and
... After calcination, hematin leaves 12.8 per cent, of ferric oxide. ..."
5. Text-book of Physiological Chemistry in Thirty Lectures by Emil Abderhalden (1908)
"We may say, however, that a comparison of the disintegration products of chlorophyll
with those of hematin, or, better, with those of hematoporphyrin, ..."