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Webster 1913 Edition


Cystine

Cyst′ine

(s?s′t?n; 104)
,
Noun.
[See
Cyst
.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A white crystalline substance,
C3H7NSO2
, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.