An alternative spelling or variant form of hematin, referring to the iron-containing compound in blood.
A variant spelling of 'hematin' using the '-ine' suffix instead of '-in', both common in 19th-century chemical nomenclature when naming conventions weren't yet standardized.
This word shows how scientific naming wasn't always consistent—chemists would use '-in' and '-ine' interchangeably, and some of these variant names stuck around even after one became the standard!
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