Vicine is an alkaloid glycoside found in fava beans. Vicine is toxic, causing the disease favism, in individuals who have a hereditary loss of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Divicine is the name of the aglycone of vicine. Fava beans also contain the related 6-hydroxy- alkaloid glycoside covicine, whose aglycone is isouramil. Vicine ...
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• (a.) Near; neighboring; vicinal. • (n.) An alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.
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Vic'ine adjective [ Latin
vicinus : confer French
voisin .] Near; neighboring; vicinal. [ R.]
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Vic'ine noun (Chemistry) An alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch (
Vicia sativa ) as a white crystalline substance.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: vī′sēn Definitions: 1. A glucoside occurring in akta, a weed that contaminates Lathyrus sativus, and in the common vetch (Vicia sativa), a plant whose fruit is substituted for red lentils; thought by some clinicians to be responsible for the symptoms of lathyrism.
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