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Definition of Bilirubin
1. Noun. An orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice.
Definition of Bilirubin
1. n. A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.
Definition of Bilirubin
1. Noun. (biochemistry) A bile pigment that is product of the breakdown of the heme portion of hemoglobin. This happens within macrophages as they digest red blood cells. Extremely high levels of bilirubin cause jaundice. ¹
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Definition of Bilirubin
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Medical Definition of Bilirubin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilirubin
Literary usage of Bilirubin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"the predominant pigment in greenish bile and the bilirubin being the principal
... bilirubin, which is perhaps the most important of the bile pigments, ..."
2. A Treatise on Cholelithiasis by Bernhard Naunyn (1896)
"bilirubin-calcium.—The bile always contains bilirubin and lime, and yet the bile
of dogs and human subjects can be concentrated, and even evaporated to ..."
3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"Under these circumstances not only does bile pigment, bilirubin, make its appearance
in the urine, but the quantity of bilirubin secreted by the liver is ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The fluid turns green if bilirubin be present; or Schmidt's sublimate test,
described above, may be used. ..."
5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The former is then converted into bilirubin-ammonium, which was tested by (1)
... bilirubin was also prepared directly from gall-stone powder without ..."
6. Clinical Diagnosis: The Bacteriological, Chemical, and Microscopical by Rudolf Jaksch von Wartenhorst, James Cagney (1897)
"In such cases, the urine must be analysed with a view to ascertaining the proportion
of oxalic acid which it contains. 3. bilirubin and ..."
7. Wöhler's Outlines of Organic Chemistry by Friedrich Wöhler, Ira Remsen, Rudolph Fittig (1873)
"Hydrochloric acid precipitates the bilirubin from this solution. When calcium or
barium chloride or lead acetate or other metallic salts are added to a ..."
8. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"The first two, bilirubin and biliverdin, are the only ones of much ... bilirubin
alone has been proved in fresh urine. Biliverdin often occurs, but, ..."
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