Usually means: Organic compound, complex ring structure.
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  3. porphyrin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. porphyrin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. Porphyrin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (porphyrin)

noun:  (organic chemistry) Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds containing pyrrole rings arranged in a square or other similar shape; they are important in biochemistry in a form with a metal atom in the central cavity (hemoglobin with iron, chlorophyll with magnesium, etc.).

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