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  • lecithin

    Biochemistry. any of a group of phospholipids, occurring in animal and plant tissues and egg yolk, composed of units of choline, phosphoric acid, fatty acids, and glycerol.

  • yolk sac

    an extraembryonic membrane that encloses the yolk of eggs in birds, reptiles, and marsupials and that circulates nourishment from the yolk to the developing embryo.

  • alecithal

    (of an ovum) having little or no yolk

  • homolecithal

    having a fairly uniform distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova having relatively little yolk.

  • lecithal

    having a yolk, as certain eggs or ova.

  • lutein

    Also called xanthophyll. a yellow-red, water-insoluble, crystalline, carotenoid alcohol, C 40 H 56 O 2 , found in the petals of marigold and certain other flowers, egg yolk, algae, and corpora lutea: used chiefly in the biochemical study of the carotenoids.
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