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Definition of Indican

1. n. A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, and decomposes on drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo.

Definition of Indican

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Indican

1. 1. A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc, it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo. 2. An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Synonym: uroxanthin. See: Indigo. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Indican

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1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1865)
"From the residual brown syrup, cold alcohol dissolves out the indican, leaving undissolved a brown viscid mass which contains ..."

2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1900)
"Hoogewerff and Mr. Ter Meulen, in which the authors describe their method of preparing a colourless crystalline glucoside in place of the amorphous indican, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Examination of urine at the Philadelphia Clinical laboratory shows indican very high; otherwise normal. After treatment that was principally dietetic and ..."

4. Medical diagnosis: A Manual of Clinical Methods by John James Graham Brown (1884)
"indican, when treated with a mineral acid, yields indigo, ... indican is a derivative from indol, which is a result of the changes which albumen undergoes ..."

5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1864)
"From the residual brown syrup, cold alcohol dissolves out the indican, leaving undissolved a brown viscid mass which contains ..."

6. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1900)
"The chromogens occurring in normal urine are indican, ... According to Senator, moreover, indican does not occur in the urine of newly born infants which ..."

7. Diseases of the Stomach and Upper Alimentary Tract by Anthony Bassler (1916)
"It is more rarely observed than indican, and may be noted in extensive disease of the small intestine affecting résorption, in gastric cancer, and acute and ..."

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