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A ruby. [Obs.] Spenser.

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

Cherubic; angelic. [Obs.] Shak.

See Turbinal. -- n.

A body formed from bilirubin, identical with urobilin.

Same as Urrhodin.

A substance isomeric with, and resembling, indigo blue, and accompanying it as a side product, in its artificial production.

ownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.

A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

See Bilirubin.

See Bilirubin.

ed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called hæmolutein.

ny one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.

f the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin.

A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome.

he urine, on the supposition that it is formed either directly or indirectly (through bilirubin) from the hæmatin of the blood. See Urochrome, and Urobilin.

soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. Also called indigrubin.