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ACETYLCYSTEINE

Specialty Definition: ACETYLCYSTEINE

DomainDefinition

Health

The N-acetyl derivative of cysteine. It is used as a mucolytic agent to reduce the viscosity of mucous secretions. It has also been shown to have antiviral effects in patients with HIV due to inhibition of viral stimulation by reactive oxygen intermediates. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ACETYLCYSTEINE

"ACETYLCYSTEINE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "ACETYLCYSTEINE" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)85.71%6143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ACETYLCYSTEINE

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ACETYLCYSTEINE": n-acetylcysteine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ACETYLCYSTEINE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

acetylcysteine

36

n acetylcysteine

20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ACETYLCYSTEINE

Language Translations for "ACETYLCYSTEINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

acetylcystein. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

acetylcysteïne. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

asetyylikysteiini. (various references)

   

French

  

acétylcystéine. (various references)

   

German

  

Acetylcystein. (various references)

   

Italian

  

acetilcisteina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acetylcysteineay

   

Portuguese

  

acetilciste'na, acetilcisteina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

acetilcisteína. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

acetylcystein. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ACETYLCYSTEINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-i-l-n-s-t-t-y-y"

-4 letters: acetylenes, acetylenic.

-5 letters: acetylene, canticles, celestite, ecclesiae, intestacy, latencies, licencees, syncytial, syntactic, tentacles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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