Ceroid: An insoluble, golden colored, waxy pigment that may be associated with liver cirrhosis in some patients.
Ceroid: A waxlike, golden, or yellow-brown pigment first found in fibrotic livers of choline-deficient rats, and also known to be present in some cirrhotic livers (and certain other tissues) of human beings. Ceroid is acid fast, insoluble in fat solvents, and probably a type of lipofuscin although differing from true lipofuscins by failing to stain with Schmorl ferric-ferricyanide reduction stain; it also exhibits autofluorescence. Accumulates in Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. [L. cera, wax, + G. eidos, appearance]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Ceroid: A naturally occurring lipid pigment with histochemical characteristics similar to lipofuscin. It accumulates in various tissues in certain experimental and pathological conditions.
Source: MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source: CRISP
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