biliverdin

See also: Biliverdin

English

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from German Biliverdin. By surface analysis, bili- +‎ Italian verde +‎ -in. The German word was naturalized into other languages as international scientific vocabulary (e.g., biliverdin, biliverdine, biliwerdyna).

Noun

biliverdin (countable and uncountable, plural biliverdins)

1. (biochemistry) A green tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, a product of heme catabolism, responsible for the greenish color sometimes seen in bruises.

Hypernyms

• bile pigment

Coordinate terms

• bilicyanin
• bilirubin

Translations

a green tetrapyrrolic bile pigment

• Finnish: biliverdiini
• French: biliverdine (fr) f
• German: Biliverdin (de) n
• Irish: biliveirdin f
• Italian: biliverdina (it) f
• Polish: biliwerdyna f
• Spanish: biliverdina f
• Swedish: biliverdin (sv) n

Further reading

• biliverdin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia