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CAERULEIN

Specialty Definition: CAERULEIN

DomainDefinition

Health

A specific decapeptide obtained from the skin of Hila caerulea, an Australian amphibian. Caerulein is similar in action and composition to cholecystokinin. It stimulates gastric, biliary, and pancreatic secretion and certain smooth muscle. It is used in paralytic ileus and as diagnostic aid in pancreatic malfunction. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: CAERULEIN

"CAERULEIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CAERULEIN" is used about 84 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)100%8436,109

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

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Expression: CAERULEIN

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "CAERULEIN": caerulein-induced.

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

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Anagrams: CAERULEIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-r-u"

-1 letter: cerulean, reliance.

-2 letters: aliener, auricle, carline, cauline, cleaner, eucaine, leucine, lucarne, lucerne, nuclear, reclean, recline, unclear.

-3 letters: aculei, aliner, anuric, careen, carlin, carnie, ceiler, cereal, crenel, cuneal, curiae, curial, eclair, enlace, inlace, lacier, lacune, lancer, larine, launce, leaner, leucin, lierne, linear, lucern, lunier, nailer, neural, nuclei, recane, relace, reline, renail, unciae, uncial, unlace.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-r-u"
 

+2 letters: reinoculate, unreclaimed.

 

+3 letters: denuclearize, inoperculate, internuclear, reinoculated, reinoculates, relacquering, reluctancies, ribonuclease, surveillance.

 

+4 letters: clairaudience, clearinghouse, countervailed, denuclearized, denuclearizes, hermeneutical, inoperculates, intercellular, leprechaunish, lucrativeness, mercurialness, neurochemical, perpendicular, republicanize, ribonucleases, surveillances, ultraviolence, undescribable, unnecessarily, unpredictable, unreclaimable, unserviceable, untheoretical.

 

+5 letters: articulateness, circularnesses, clairaudiences, clearinghouses, conceptualizer, counterclaimed, counterrallied, counterrallies, creatureliness, denuclearizing, grandiloquence, hypermasculine, interfaculties, intermolecular, neurochemicals, neurogenically, perpendiculars, radiolucencies, reconfigurable, rediscountable, republicanized, republicanizes, resurrectional, supermasculine, translucencies, ultraefficient, ultraenergetic, ultraviolences, uncredentialed, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unpredictables, unrecognizable, unreconcilable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAERULEIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 45 52 55 4C 45 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    .    .-.    ..-    .-..    .    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01000101 01010010 01010101 01001100 01000101 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#69 &#82 &#85 &#76 &#69 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0045 0052 0055 004C 0045 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

373539525546394348

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Expressions
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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