INDICAN
\ˈɪndɪkən], \ˈɪndɪkən], \ˈɪ_n_d_ɪ_k_ə_n]\
Definitions of INDICAN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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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. Called also uroxanthin.
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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. Called also uroxanthin.
By Noah Webster.
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A substance occurring in the urine of mammals and also in blood plasma as the normal metabolite of tryptophan. An increased urinary excretion of indican is seen in Hartnup disease from the bacterial degradation of unabsorbed tryptophan.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Derivative of indigo plants.
By William R. Warner
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A colorless substance found in plants which yield indigo-blue, in human blood and urine, and also in the blood and urine of the ox, and which forms indigo when in a state of decomposition.
By Daniel Lyons
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A glucoside occurring in the indigo plants (Indigofera, Isatis).
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Indoxylsulphurie acid; a substance, C8H7 NSO4 – C8H6OSO2OH, formerly regarded as identical with i. (1), occurring as a potassium salt (also called i.) in the sweat and in the urine (Indicanuria), especially after the administration of indol, and in gastrectasia intestinal dyspepsia, chronic constipation, neurasthenia, and epilepsy.
By Alexander Duane
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