hemosiderin
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hemosiderin (countable and uncountable, plural hemosiderins)
- (biochemistry) An abnormal microscopic pigment, formed of granules of a complex of iron hydroxides, protein and polysaccharides, that forms in tissues of patients having an excess of iron
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abnormal microscopic pigment
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