Crossword-Solution: XANTHIN
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| Xanthin | n. | A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates). |
| Xanthin | n. | A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder. |
| Xanthin | n. | One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide. |
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Sentences with XANTHIN (5)
Anything that is recognized as especially loaded with nuclein and xanthin bodies, such as liver, sweetbreads and kidneys, should be prohibited, as tending to cause uric acid disturbance; and the more tendency to gout or uric acid malmetabolism the more irritated are the arteries and the more disturbed the blood pressure.
Most of the nitrogenous material of the broth is in the form of creatin, sarkin, and xanthin, nitrogenous extractives or amid substances having a much lower food value than proteids.
Haig, in his works on uric acid, states that, containing as they do considerable xanthin, an exceedingly harmful poison, they are not to be commended as healthful articles of diet.
Haig thinks that as the outer brown husk of all cereals contains some xanthin, it should on this account be removed.
Others, however, are of the opinion that the amount of xanthin present in the bran is so small as not to be considered, especially when, by the removal of the xanthin, valuable mineral matter is also removed.