Chlorocruorin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A green respiratory pigment found in many annelids. uncountable

    "Later it was shown that the α-bands of the pyridine haemochromogens of both cytochrome a and chlorocruorin resemble each other closely (Keilin, 1933 a)."

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"Later it was shown that the α-bands of the pyridine haemochromogens of both cytochrome a and chlorocruorin resemble each other closely (Keilin, 1933 a)."

Etymology

From chloro- + cruor + -in (see also cruorin). Named by British zoologist Ray Lankester in 1868.

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respiratory pigment

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