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indican

  (ĭn'dĭ-kăn')

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1. A potassium salt, C₈H₆NO₄SK, found in sweat and urine and formed by the conversion of tryptophan to indole by intestinal bacteria.
2. A glucoside, C₁₄H₁₇NO₆, occurring in the indigo plant and used as a source for indigo dye.

[Latin indicum, indigo; see indigo + –AN².]

A potassium salt found in sweat and urine and formed by the conversion of tryptophan to indole by intestinal bacteria.

1. a substance formed by decomposition of tryptophan in the intestines and excreted in the urine.
2. a yellow indoxyl glycoside from indigo plants.