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| Domain | Definition |
Environment | Conversion of a substance into other compounds by organisms; includes biodegredation. (references) |
Health | The chemical alteration of an exogenous substance by or in a biological system. The alteration may inactivate the compound or it may result in the production of an active metabolite of an inactive parent compound. The alteration may be either non-synthetic (oxidation-reduction, hydrolysis) or synthetic (glucuronide formation, sulfate conjugation, acetylation, methylation). This also includes metabolic detoxication and clearance. (references) |
Medicine | The metabolic reactions in an organism whereby a foreign chemical, introduced into the organism, is either converted to a different compound or conjugated to a metabolite of the organism. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BIOTRANSFORMATION |
| Specialty definitions using "BIOTRANSFORMATION": Cytochrome P-450. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BIOTRANSFORMATION" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (biotransformation). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BIOTRANSFORMATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BIOTRANSFORMATION" is used about 10 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
biotransformation | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BIOTRANSFORMATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | biotransformering, biotransformation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | biotransformatie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | biotransformaatio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | biotransformation (f), biotransformation (bioconversion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Biotransformation, biologische Umwandlung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | biotrasformazione, trasformazione biologica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iotransformationbay biotransformação, biotransformação. (various references) biotransformación. (various references) biotransformation (bioconversion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BIOTRANSFORMATION": biotransformations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-f-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: transformation. | |
-5 letters: abominations, antiabortion, arbitrations, brominations, informations. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-f-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: biotransformations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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