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Definition of Lutein
1. Noun. Yellow carotenoid pigments in plants and animal fats and egg yolks.
Definition of Lutein
1. n. A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.
Definition of Lutein
1. Noun. (organic compound) A yellow carotenoid pigment, widely distributed in both plants and animals. ¹
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Definition of Lutein
1. a yellow pigment [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lutein
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Literary usage of Lutein
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1. Gynæcology for Students & Practitioners by Thomas Watts Eden (1920)
"In general appearance a compound theca-lutein cyst resembles a compound hydrops
... Through the thin walls may be seen yellow patches of the lutein lamina ..."
2. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Connective tissue may appear in the centers of lutein cysts and the flat ...
(4) Bilateral multilocular lutein cysts commonly appear with hydatid mole and ..."
3. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1908)
"A CASE OF CHORION-EPITHELIOMA OF THE UTERUS; lutein CYSTS IN BOTH OVARIES.
(With Plates VII—IX. ... lutein ..."
4. Gonorrhea in Women: Its Pathology, Symptomatology, Diagnosis, and Treatment by Charles Camblos Norris (1913)
"The lutein lining of the abscess can still be distinguished. It is in the latter
location that the inflammatory reaction is most intense ( X 15). ..."
5. Contributions to the Study of the Early Development and Imbedding of the by Thomas Hastie Bryce, John Hammond Teacher, John Martin Munro Kerr (1908)
"Upon one point all observers are agreed, viz., that the layer next to the foetal
tissue is connective tissue in some form, and that the lutein cells ..."
6. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1899)
"The lutein cells are specialised connective-tissue cells, which appear in the
inner layers of the follicle wall at the time when it begins to show a ..."
7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"(4) Cysts lined by lutein cells covered by cylindrical, cuboidal, ... In normal
pregnancy somewhat similar but much less extensive hypertrophy of lutein ..."
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