See Also: citrin(dictionary)
citrin(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Haldane (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Haldane's apparatus(medicine)
Haldane tube(medicine)
Haldane transformation(medicine)
Haldane relationship(medicine)
Haldane effect(medicine)
Haldane chamber(medicine)

Haldane's rule (medicine) and citrin (medicine)


Haldane's rule (medicine)


Haldane's rule
<genetics> if one of the two sexes is missing, sterile, or rare in a population of first-generation hybrids between two different species, then that sex is the heterogametic sex (has two different sex chromosomes, such as XY as opposed to XX).


citrin (medicine)


citrin -->
vitamin P


A mixture of bioflavonoids extracted from plants (especially citrus fruits). It reduces the permeability and fragility of capillaries and is useful in the treatment of certain cases of purpura that are resistant to vitamin C therapy.

See: hesperidin, quercetin, rutin.

Synonym: capillary permeability factor, citrin, permeability vitamin.