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Winchester (oh) and bilirubinoids (medicine)


Winchester (oh)



an ancient city in southern England, famous for its cathedral and for its public school (=a school that is paid for by the parents and not by the government) , Winchester College. Winchester was England's capital city in the 9th and 10th centuries.

bilirubinoids (medicine)


bilirubinoids
<biochemistry> Generic term denoting intermediates in the conversion of bilirubin to stercobilin by reductive enzymes in intestinal bacteria. Included are mesobilirubin, mesobilane mesobilene-b, urobilinogen, urobilin, reduction products of mesobilane (stercobilinogen) and mesobilene (stercobilin), and mesobiliviolin.

Most are found in normal urine and faeces. Products related to these intermediates and found in pathological conditions (e.g., jaundice, liver disease) are the structurally indefinite probilifuscins and propentdyopents found in gallstones.