Crossword-Solution: INDICAN
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| Indican | n. | A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo. |
| Indican | n. | An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin. |
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Sentences with INDICAN (5)
The indications that such a condition of the intestines is present are irregular action of the bowels, a large amount of intestinal gas, sometimes watery stools, often a coated tongue, and the presence of indican in the urine.
The first of these tints, green, is the only one that undoubtedly points to the presence of biliary coloring matter, all the others being yielded by another constituent of urine, indican, when similarly treated.
None of the plants (of which _indigofera tinctoria_ is the chief) contain the colouring matter in the free state, ready-made, so to say, but only as a peculiar colourless compound called _indican_, first discovered by Edward Schunck.
Etym: [Indican + glucin.] (Chem.) Defn: The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican.
Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican.