lipofuscin

[ lip-uh-fuhs-in, lahy-puh- ]

nounBiochemistry.
  1. any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.

Origin of lipofuscin

1
1920–25; <German, equivalent to lipo-lipo-1 + Latin fusc(us) dark, tawny + German -in-in2

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