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单词 carotene
释义

carotenecarotinn.

/ˈkarətiːn//ˈkarətɪn/
Etymology: < German carotin (H. W. F. Wackenroder 1831, in Mag. Pharmacie XXXIII. 148), < Latin carota carrot + -ene comb. form, -in suffix1.
An orange or red hydrocarbon, C40H56, synthesized in several isomeric forms by carrots and many other plants, and an important source of vitamin A. Also attributive.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [noun] > cyclic hydrocarbons > others
heveëne1838
menthene1838
carotene1861
stilbene1868
mesityl1879
naphthene1884
tetramethylene1885
hexamethylene1887
pentamethylene1887
irene1894
pregnane1932
adamantane1933
aldrin1949
sterane1951
norbornane1952
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxv. 563 A peculiar crystallizable ruby-red neuter principle, without odour or taste, called carotin.
1895 Naturalist 24 [Berries of mountain ash.] Their colouring matter is due to carotin.
1897 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 72 ii. 225 The author does not attempt to decide whether the crystals formed in this reaction are all xanthophyll or all carotin crystals, or whether these are identical or whether they consist in part of colouring matters nearly related to carotene.
1898 M. I. Newbigin Colour in Nature 39 In plants the best known lipochrome is carotin.
1951 Sci. News 22 75 Vitamin A..is one half of a carotene molecule and is formed from carotene in the intestinal wall of animals.
1960 H. M. Fox & H. G. Vevers Nature of Animal Colours v. 76 Other vitamin A precursors are α-carotene, cryptoxanthin (3-oxy-β-carotene), found in many plants as well as in egg-yolk, and echinenone.

Derivatives

ˌcaroteˈnaemia n. (ˌcarotiˈnæmia, U.S.ˌcaroteˈnemia) the presence of carotene in the circulating blood.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > presence of abnormalities
piarhaemia1848
uraemia1853
melanaemia1859
urinaemia1860
lithaemia1874
lipaemia1881
blood urea1883
haemoglobinaemia1885
bacteraemia1890
oxalaemia1892
uric-acidaemia1893
sulphaemoglobinaemia1910
carotenaemia1919
parasitaemia1944
viraemia1947
paraproteinaemia1956
1919 A. F. Hess & V. C. Myers in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. LXXIII. 1745/1 In cases of carotinemia the urine was colored yellow as well as the serum.
1959 Listener 11 June 1017/1 Occasional cases of a condition known as carotinaemia were encountered... It arose from an over-indulgence in carrots.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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