(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:59:00

Lu"te*in (?), n. [From corpus luteum.] Physiol. Chem.

A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yolk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

 

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