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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Family of antimicrobial peptides that have been identified in humans, animals, and plants. They are thought to play a role in host defenses against infections, inflammation, wound repair, and acquired immunity. Based on the disulfide pairing of their characteristic six cysteine residues, they are divided into alpha-defensins and beta-defensins. (references) |
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Crosswords: DEFENSINS |
| Specialty definitions using "DEFENSINS": alpha-Defensins, Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides ♦ beta-Defensins. (references) |
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Ending with "DEFENSINS": alpha-Defensins, beta-Defensins. | |
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| 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 |
defensins | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-n-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: fineness, finessed. | |
-2 letters: defines, finesse, indenes. | |
-3 letters: defies, define, denies, dienes, dieses, fessed, fiends, finned, indene, seined, seines, seised, sensed, sinned. | |
-4 letters: defis, denes, dense, diene, dines, feeds, fends, fesse, fiend, finds, fined, fines, inned, needs, neifs, nenes, nides, nines, seeds, seifs, seine, seise, sends, sense, sides, sines, sneds, snide. | |
-5 letters: dees, defi, dene, deni. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-i-n-n-s-s" | |
+3 letters: definiteness, fiendishness, friendliness. | |
+4 letters: confirmedness, defensiveness, differentness, mindfulnesses. | |
+5 letters: definitenesses, definitiveness, disenfranchise, fiendishnesses, forebodingness, friendlessness, friendlinesses, indefiniteness, manifoldnesses, unfriendliness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 46 45 4E 53 49 4E 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01000110 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001001 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E F E N S I N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0046 0045 004E 0053 0049 004E 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383940394853434853 |
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