hippuric acid
Britishnoun
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They were found to contain traces of the hippuric acid associated with animal, particularly ungulate, urine, and euxanthic acid—a possible by-product of the metabolic processing of mango leaves.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018
Quinic acid, which is present in cranberries, is metabolized by the body into hippuric acid, a substance that in very high concentrations is toxic to E. coli, the pathogen most commonly to blame for U.T.I.s.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2016
So they don't like chlorine, or creatinine, or hippuric acid.
From The Verge • Aug. 29, 2015
The very fact that we are in possession of an efficient process for converting poisonous benzoic acid into harmless hippuric acid indicates that there is a necessity for doing so.
From Food Poisoning by Jordan, Edwin Oakes
In the herbivora the nitrogenous waste takes the form of another body called hippuric acid.
From The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Duncan, A. W.
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