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<chemistry> A complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and uric acid, produced as a white powder; so called because it forms yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like quinine.
Origin: Gr. Xanqos = yellow + quinine.
(01 Mar 1998)
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