Health Dictionary Find a Doctor

Stercobilin


Overview

Template:Chembox new

Stercobilin is a tetrapyrrole chemical compound, responsible for the typical brown color of human feces.

It is created from bacterial conversion of bilirubin to stercobilinogen and subsequently oxidised to stercobilin.


de:Sterkobilin it:Stercobilina

Template:WH Template:WS

© 2026 MyEClinic – IFTM Institut für Telematik in der Medizin GmbH