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Definition of Homogentisic acid
1. Noun. An acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine.
Definition of Homogentisic acid
1. Noun. (chemistry) 2,5-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Homogentisic acid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Homogentisic Acid
Literary usage of Homogentisic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The amount of homogentisic acid excreted in patients suffering from this diathesis,
depends chiefly upon the content of the protein of the food in tyrosin ..."
2. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"homogentisic acid, but on an incapacity for further dealing with it1— a condition
which may be well compared with cystinuria. The results of metabolic ..."
3. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"On this account the quotient H (= homogentisic acid): N (nitrogen) is variable
on the introduction of different proteins. For example, with casein H: N is ..."
4. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"Tliis was due to homogentisic acid, produced from tyrosine. But the OH-group in
the latter is in the para-position, in the former in the meta-position. ..."
5. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry: By John A. Mandel by Olof Hammarsten (1908)
"WOLKOW and BAUMANN explain the formation of homogentisic acid from tyrosine ...
homogentisic acid is burnt in the healthy organism, and in consonance with ..."
6. Oxidations and Reductions in the Animal Body by Henry Drysdale Dakin (1922)
"The acceptance of the view that homogentisic acid was a normal intermediary
product of phenylalanine and tyrosine catabolism, was more general when Embden, ..."
7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1902)
"Mittelbach thinks that the increase in the homogentisic acid just after food ...
Mittelbach concludes by considering homogentisic acid to be a normal ..."
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