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Definition of Hemosiderin
1. Noun. A granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism.
Definition of Hemosiderin
1. Noun. (biochemistry) An abnormal microscopic pigment, formed of granules of a complex of iron hydroxides, protein and polysaccharides, that forms in tissues of patients having an excess of iron ¹
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Definition of Hemosiderin
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Medical Definition of Hemosiderin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemosiderin
Literary usage of Hemosiderin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1920)
"hemosiderin. This yellow, orange, or brown pigment is a derivative of hemoglobin
and contains iron. ..."
2. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1921)
"These additional statistics, showing the further occurrence of alcoholic hyalin
and of hemosiderin, are of value. Slight cirrhosis. No cirrhosis. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"Where carbon is wanting the usual masses of hemosiderin are found, chiefly within
the large " heart-failure cells " in the alveoli. ..."
4. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"In infarcts hemosiderin soon disappears (Schmidt),54 presumably because ...
According to Neumann, hemosiderin is produced only under the influence of living ..."
5. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"It arises from hemoglobin in solution and does not owe its origin like hemosiderin
to vital activity. After formation, however ..."
6. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"It arises from hemoglobin in solution and does not owe its origin like hemosiderin
to vital activity. After formation, however ..."
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