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nestling (iou) and xanthurenic acid (medicine)


nestling (iou)



nestling noun. LME.
[from NEST noun + -LING1, or NESTLE + -ING3, perh. after Middle Dutch nestelinc (mod. -ling).]
A young bird not yet old enough to leave the nest. LME.
The youngest child of a family. Now rare. L16.

xanthurenic acid (medicine)


xanthurenic acid


4,8-Dihydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylic acid; 4,8-dihydroquinaldic acid;the sulfur-yellow crystals form a red compound with Millon reagent, or an intensely green one with ferrous sulfate; excreted in the urine of pyridoxine-deficient animals after the ingestion of tryptophan, and of rats fed almost exclusively with fibrin.