ceroid

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Introduction

A wax-like, yellow-brown autofluorescent pigment, with characteristics of lipofuscin. It differs from lipofuscin by not staining with Schmorl ferric ferricyanide reduction stain. From latin cera = wax + Greek eidos = appearance

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999