Crossword-Solution: LUTEIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lutein | n. | A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LUTEIN | anagram | LUITEN |
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| Chemical in eye health supplements | 1 answer |
| Pigment partially responsible for the color of egg yolks | 1 answer |
| Plant pigment that may slow macular degeneration | 1 answer |
| xanthophyll pigment | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with LUTEIN (5)
But this leaves the question, what is lutein and why is it secreted? Lutein is a colouring matter sometimes found in blood-clots, and probably derived from haemoglobin.
Chemical investigation shows that the lutein of the corpus luteum is almost if not quite identical with the colouring matter of the yolk in birds and reptiles.
Chem._, 83 (1912).] found that the lutein of the corpus luteum had the formula C{40}H{56} and was apparently identical with the carotin of the carrot, while the lutein of egg-yolk was C{40}H{56}O{2} and more soluble in alcohol, less soluble in petroleum ether, than that of the corpus luteum.
Recent suggestions have been made as to chorion-epithelioma being the result of pathological changes in the lutein tissue of the ovary.
Bilirubin presents the former relation, while chloroform solutions of the coloring matter of the yelk of egg and of the corpus luteum, called lutein or haemolutein, are not decolorized by an alkali.
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2021–2022).