Urochrome - meaning and definition. What is Urochrome
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What (who) is Urochrome - definition

CHEMICAL COMPOUND
Urochrome; Urohaematin

Urochrome         
·noun A yellow urinary pigment, considered by Thudichum as the only pigment present in normal urine. It is regarded by Maly as identical with urobilin.
Urobilin         
·noun A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. ·see Urochrome.
Urohaematin         
·noun Urinary haematin;
- applied to the normal coloring matter of the urine, on the supposition that it is formed either directly or indirectly (through bilirubin) from the haematin of the blood. ·see Urochrome, and Urobilin.

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Urobilin

Urobilin or urochrome is the chemical primarily responsible for the yellow color of urine. It is a linear tetrapyrrole compound that, along with the related colorless compound urobilinogen, are degradation products of the cyclic tetrapyrrole heme.