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A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also glycin, and glycocin.

Same as Glycocoll.

Pertaining to, or composed of, glycocoll and cholic acid. Glycocholic acid (Physiol. Chem.), a conjugate acid, composed of glycocoll and cholic acid, present in bile in the form of a sodium salt. The acid commonly forms a resinous mass, but can be crystallized in long, white needles.

Same as Glycocoll.

l quantity in human urine. By the action of acids, it is decomposed into benzoic acid and glycocoll.

mposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll.

rogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.

A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

ny one of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.

lds urea, among other products. It can be made synthetically by heating together urea and glycocoll. It was formerly called also lithic acid, in allusion to its occurrence in stone, or calculus.