bili-, bil-

(Latin: bile)

urobilin

A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin (body formed from bilirubin), abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine.

urobilinogen

A colorless compound formed in the intestines by the reduction of bilirubin.

Some is excreted in the feces where it is oxidized to urobilin. Some is reabsorbed and re-excreted in the bile as bilirubin; while at times, it is re-excreted in the urine, where it may be later oxidized to urobilin.

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bili-, bil-

(Latin: bile)

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