Medical Dictionary
tetrapyrrole
noun tet·ra·pyr·role
Medical Definition of TETRAPYRROLE
: a chemical group consisting of four pyrrole rings joined either in a straight chain (as in phycobilins) or in a ring (as in chlorophyll)
Variants of TETRAPYRROLE
tet·ra·pyr·role also tet·ra·pyr·rol \ˌte-trə-ˈpi(ə)r-ˌōl\
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