pheoporphyrin

noun

pheo·​porphyrin

variants or phaeoporphyrin

¦fēō+

: a crystalline isomer of pheophorbide that is obtained from pheophorbide by treatment with hydriodic acid and that is not of typical porphyrin structure but is a substituted dehydro-phorbin

Word History

Etymology

pheophorbide + porphyrin

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