[a. F. stercorine (see quot. 1868), f. stercor-, stercus dung: see -IN.] A fæcal extractive resembling biliary cholesterin.
[1868. A. Flint, Jr., Recherches expérim. sur une nouvelle fonction du Foie, 67. Trouvant cette substance en si grande quantité dans les matières fécales, nous l’avons désignée sous le nom de stercorine.]
1873. Ralfe, Phys. Chem., 21. Stercorin. Under this name Dr. Austin Flint has described a substance which, if not identical with serolin, resembles it closely in its physical and chemical characters.
1881. Mivart, Cat, 188. Their nutritious matter being re-absorbed and their refuse driven on as excretin, stercorin [etc.].
