Definition of Melanoids

1. melanoid [n] - See also: melanoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melanoids

melanoderma chloasma
melanodermatitis
melanodermic
melanogaster
melanogasters
melanogen
melanogenaemia
melanogeneses
melanogenesis
melanogenetic
melanogenic
melanoglossia
melanogogue
melanogogues
melanoid
melanoids (current term)
melanokeratosis
melanoleukoderma
melanoleukoderma colli
melanoliberin
melanoma
melanoma growth stimulatory activity
melanomas
melanomata
melanomatosis
melanonychia
melanopathy
melanophage
melanophilin
melanophlogite

Literary usage of Melanoids

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry: By John A. Mandel by Olof Hammarsten (1908)
"So little is known about the structural products of the melanins or melanoids that it is impossible to give the origin of these bodies. ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"true of the melanoids produced from proteins on cleavage with acids (SAMUELY l}—yield indol or skatol and a pyrrol substance on fusion with alkali, ..."

3. Birmingham Medical Review (1896)
"... and the latter are closely connected with the melanoids, which last " lead " to the dark pigments which have long been known as melanin These pigments, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"melanoids exist, but are not very common ; those that live in gloomy forests being far darker than those found in more open country. ..."

5. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"Limbs slender. The Australians are regarded by Deniker and Haddon as a " Pre-Dravid- ian" race, driven southward from southeastern India. C. melanoids OR ..."

6. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"... products on boiling with acids, with coincident loss of water and taking up of oxygen, and that the mixtures of these products represent the melanoids. ..."

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