Stercobilin

Also found in: Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Ster`co`bi´lin

(Physiol. Chem.) A coloring matter found in the fæces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, - identical with hydrobilirubin.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive ?

These molecules are later catabolized to urobilin and stercobilin, which stain stools yellow-brown.

Human Colors--The Rainbow Garden of Pathology: What Gives Normal and Pathologic Tissues Their Color?

By the time it ends up in your toilet bowl it is a molecule called stercobilin.

Pupils' US musical proves a huge hit

Convert urobilinogen to stercobilinogen, which is excreted in the faeces as stercobilin and imparts the brown colour to faecal matter.