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Porphyrin

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Noun

1. porphyrin

any of various pigments distributed widely in living tissues

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Porphyrin

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noun
any of a group of pigments occurring widely in animal and plant tissues and having a heterocyclic structure formed from four pyrrole rings linked by four methylene groups

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Porphyrin

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noun
any of a group of pyrrole derivatives, found in cytoplasm, that combine with iron and magnesium to form heme and chlorophyll, respectively

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Porphyrin

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n.
Any of various organic compounds containing four pyrrole rings, occurring universally in protoplasm, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes.

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