haematoin

English

Etymology

From haemato- +‎ -in.

Noun

haematoin (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) A substance formed from the haematin of blood, by removal of the iron through the action of concentrated sulphuric acid.

See also

• haematoporphyrin
• haematolin

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “haematoin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• theomania