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hypoxanthine Chem.|hɪp-, haɪpɒkˈsænθaɪn|
[f. hypo- 5 + xanthine. Cf. F. hypoxanthine.]
A nitrogenous substance, C5H4N4O, found in the muscle, spleen, heart, etc. of vertebrates, and forming a white crystalline powder; also called sarcine.
1844–57G. Bird Urin. Deposits (ed. 5) 46 This interesting body..bears so close a resemblance to xanthine or uric oxide, that Scherer has named it hypoxanthine.
attrib.1873C. H. Ralfe Phys. Chem. 96 The precipitate consists of hypoxanthin nitrate and silver oxide; this is to be decomposed with sulphydric acid, and hypoxanthin is precipitated.
Hence hypoˈxanthic a., derived from, or of the nature of, hypoxanthine. |