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naphthoquinone (iou) and iodine cysts (medicine)


naphthoquinone (iou)



naphthoquinone noun. Also naphthaquinone. L19.
[from NAPHTH(ALENE + -O- + QUINONE.]
Chemistry. Each of six isomeric compounds, C10H6O2, notionally obtained by replacing two of the CH groups of naphthalene by carbonyl groups; spec. (more fully 1,4-naphthoquinone, -naphthoquinone) a volatile yellow solid whose molecule forms part of the structure of vitamin K.

iodine cysts (medicine)


iodine cysts


An obsolete term used to indicate the cyst's of Iodamoeba butschlii, characterised by a large iodine-positive glycogen vacuole.