uroeˈrythrin Chem.
Also -ine.
[f. uro-1 + erythrin.]
A reddish pigment found in the urine of persons suffering from fevers, esp. rheumatic fever.
| 1845 G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 216 Uroerythrin, in all probability, owes its origin to the hæmatin of the blood-corpuscles. 1863 W. O. Markham tr. Anal. Urine, etc. 49 Uroerythrine is the pigment which gives to sediments of uric acid and urate of soda their brick or rosy red colour. 1889 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VII. 416 Its oxidation [i.e. of urochrome] gives rise to a red pigment called uroerythrin. |