Leukoma in

or Leucoma in. The name applied by Gautier to the nitrogenous bases or alkaloids nece arily and normally developed by the vital functions or metabolic activity of living organisms, as distinguished from the alkaloids developed in dead bodies, and called by Selmi ptomains. From their chemic affinities leukoma ins may be divided into two groups: the Jrid acid group, comprising Adenin, Carnin, Gerontin, Giianin, Hetero xanthin, Hypo xanthin, Para xanthin, Pseudo xanthin, Sperm in, Xanthin; and the Kreatinin group, in which are cla ed Amphi-kreatinin, Cruso-kreatinin, Xantho-kreatinin, and some unnamed bases. The appended table, p. 674, is modified from the work of Vaughan and Nov Leukomainemia (lu-ko-ma-in-e/ -tne-ah). The presence of leukoma ins in the blood; the retention or imperfect elimination of the various excretory products of the living cells of the organism.