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A bile pigment that is a product of the breakdown of the heme portion of hemoglobin (which occurs within macrophages as they digest red blood cells), and which is responsible for the yellowish color seen in bruises. Extremely high levels of bilirubin may cause jaundice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hematoidin, haematoidin
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: animal pigment
From international scientific vocabulary, from German Bilirubin. By surface analysis, bili- + rub- + -in. The German word was naturalized into other languages as international scientific vocabulary (e.g., bilirubin, bilirubine, bilirubina).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
膽紅素 /胆红素
(dǎnhóngsù)
— bile pigment
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Finnish:
bilirubiini
— bile pigment
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French:
bilirubine
— bile pigment
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German:
Bilirubin
— bile pigment
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Greek:
χολερυθρίνη
(cholerythríni)
— bile pigment
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Irish:
bilearúibin
— bile pigment
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Japanese:
ビリルビン
(birirubin)
— bile pigment
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Korean:
빌리루빈
(billirubin)
— bile pigment
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Polish:
bilirubina
— bile pigment
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Portuguese:
bilirrubina
— bile pigment
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Russian:
билируби́н
(bilirubín)
— bile pigment
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Tamil:
பிலிரூபின்
(pilirūpiṉ)
— bile pigment
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Turkish:
bilirübin
— bile pigment
