While delving microscopically through the pus in surgical bandages, Miescher found a substance he didn't recognize and called it nuclein (because it resided in the nuclei of cells).
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Nuclein
//ˈn(j)u.kli.ɪn//
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German
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Greek
1 entries- νουκλεΐνη noun (Translations)
Italian
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Portuguese
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Russian
1 entries- нуклеи́н noun (Translations)
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