Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A red coloring matter, seldom if ever found in normal urine, but present in this fluid in fevers, especially rheumatic fever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry A red
pigment (chromophore ) associated with thebrickdust deposit
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If an abundant amorphous deposit of a fawn or pink -- from _uroerythrin_ -- color slowly settles and is readily diffused, _urates_ in excess can be anticipated.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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