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Gastrin

Definition: Gastrin

Gastrin

Noun

1. Polypeptide hormone secreted by the mucous lining of the stomach; induces the secretion of gastric juice.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Gastrin

DomainDefinitions

Health

A hormone released after eating. Gastrin causes the stomach to produce more acid. (references)

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Crosswords: Gastrin

Specialty definitions using "gastrin": D CellsEnprostil, Enterochromaffin-like CellsG Cells, Gastrin-Releasing PeptidePentagastrinReceptors, CholecystokininTetragastrin. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Gastrin

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gastrin (reference)

  • Gastrin Receptors in Gastrointestinal Tumors (Medical Intelligence Unit) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Gastrin

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Too much gastrin can also cause serious diarrhea. (references)

Gastrin normally circulates in the blood, causing the stomach to secrete enough acid needed for digestion. (references)

Occasionally, a person who has MEN1 develops islet tumors of the pancreas that secrete high levels of pancreatic hormones other than gastrin. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Gastrin

"Gastrin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Gastrin" is used about 555 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)99.28%55111,300
Noun (proper)0.72%4175,879
                    Total100.00%555N/A

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

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Expressions: Gastrin

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "gastrin": Gastrin-Releasing Peptide.

Ending with "gastrin": big-gastrin, ct-gastrin.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gastrin

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

gastrin

22

gastrin serum

4

gastrin level

3
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Modern Translations: Gastrin

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

Finnish

  

gastriini. (various references)

   

French

  

gastrine. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astringay.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

gastrin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Gastrin

Derivations

Words beginning with "gastrin": gastrins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Gastrin

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gratins, ratings, staring.

Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-r-s-t"

-1 letter: gainst, giants, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, instar, rasing, rating, santir, sating, strain, strang, string, taring, trains.

-2 letters: agist, airns, airts, angst, antis, astir, gains, gaits, garni, giant, girns, girts, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grins, grist, grits, naris, ragis, rains, ranis, rants, riant, rings, saint, sarin, satin, sitar, staig, stain, stair, stang, sting, stria, tains, tangs, tarns, tarsi, tings, tragi, train, trans, trigs.

-3 letters: agin, ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anis, anti, ants, arts, gain, gait, gars, gast, gats, gins, girn, girt, gist, gits, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, nags, nits, ragi, rags, rain, rang, rani, rant, rats, rias, rigs, ring, rins, sain, sang, sari, sati, sign, sing, snag, snit, stag, star, stir, tags, tain, tang, tans, tarn, tars, ting, tins, trig, tsar.

-4 letters: ain, air, ais, ait, ani, ant, ars, art, gan, gar, gas, gat, gin, git, ins, its, nag, nit, rag, ran, ras, rat, ria, rig, rin, sag, sat, sin, sir, sit, sri, tag, tan, tar, tas, tin, tis.

-5 letters: ag, ai, an, ar, as, at, in, is, it, na, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: angriest, astringe, ganister, gantries, gastrins, granitas, granites, gratings, ingrafts, ingrates, kartings, migrants, organist, partings, rangiest, ringtaws, roasting, scarting, smarting, starling, starring, starting, starving, stingray, strafing, strawing, straying, tracings, trashing.

 

+2 letters: agentries, arresting, asserting, assorting, astringed, astringes, breasting, disrating, draftings, emigrants, estraying, farthings, figurants, ganisters, gannister, gauntries, gnarliest, gradients, grainiest, gratinees, gravitons, grievants, gyrations, hamstring, ingathers, integrals, mastering, misrating, nightjars, orangiest, organists, pastoring, pasturing, rattlings, recasting, repasting, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retasting, rigatonis, ringtails, rogations, seriating, serrating, signatory, signature, starching, starlings, startling, stingaree, stingrays, straining, stranding, strapping, streaking, streaming, striating, surtaxing, thrashing, trackings, trainings, traipsing, trapesing, trappings, triangles, upstaring, vintagers, warstling, waterings, wrastling.

 

+3 letters: absterging, agronomist, amortising, aragonites, argentines, argentites, asperating, aspirating, astricting, astringent, astringing, breathings, carpetings, castrating, centigrams, costarring, denigrates, designator, disparting, drawstring, earthlings, estranging, estreating, gannisters, garnitures, gatherings, generalist, germinates, gradations, granulites, guaranties, gyniatries, hamstrings, harvesting, immigrants, indagators, instarring, instigator, integrands, integrates, interstage, intrigants, kingcrafts, laryngitis, lustrating, marginates, marketings, migrations, misparting, mistracing, morganites, navigators, nightmares, organicist, originates, outraising, outsoaring, outstaring, panegyrist, parentings, plastering, practising, precasting, prepasting, pretasting, ptarmigans, purgations, registrant, resaluting, resinating, resonating, restacking, restaffing, restamping, restarting, retailings, ringmaster, satirising, satirizing, saturating, sauntering, scattering, scratching, separating, shattering, signatures, slathering, smartening, smattering, spattering, sprattling, springtail, staggering, stammering, stargazing, starveling, steamering, stewarding, stingarees, straddling, straggling, straighten, strangling, strappings, stravaging, streakings, streamings, stringhalt, supergiant, tailorings, tangerines, tarnishing, thrashings, tragedians, transgenic, transiting, transuding, traversing, treasuring, upstarting.

 

+4 letters: abridgments, abrogations, abstracting, abstricting, advertising, afforesting, agronomists, ancestoring, arrestingly, arrogations, asterisking, astringency, astringents, authorising, brigantines, brutalising, caretakings, cartelising, cartoonings, charmingest, contrasting, coruscating, cosignatory, denigrators, derogations, desecrating, designators, designatory, dignitaries, distracting, distraining, dramatising, drawstrings, emigrations, ergotamines, everlasting, featherings, figurations, forecasting, foretasting, frustrating, gallantries, gangsterish, gangsterism, garnierites, garnishment, gastronomic, generalists, generations, graduations, grandiosity, greasepaint, grubstaking, hairstyling, heartstring, impregnants, impregnates, inaugurates, ingratiates, instigators, integrators, interabangs, intergrades, intergrafts, intriguants, invigorates, irrigations, isografting, jargonistic, latchstring, magnetizers, martingales, misaltering, miscreating, misgrafting, misrelating, misstarting, mistraining, mistreating, monogastric, multigrains, nasogastric, nearsighted, negotiators, nightmarish, nitrogenase, nonmigrants, organicists, originators, ostracising, ostracizing, outbargains, outsavoring, outsmarting, outstarting, outswearing, overcasting, oversalting, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, pageantries, panegyrists, patronising, patternings, personating, pharyngitis, plaistering, plasterings, postmarking, prestamping, privatising, prognathism, prostrating, protagonist, quarterings, readjusting, rearresting, reasserting, reassorting, refastening, regimentals, regionalist, registrants, regulations, reinstating, relegations, remastering, resignation, restraining, ringmasters, ringstraked, rusticating, scatterings, segregating, segregation, sergeanties, signatories, singularity, smatterings, splattering, sporulating, springtails, springwater, squattering, stargazings, startlingly, starvelings, straightens, straighting, straitening, strangering, stranguries, stratifying, stravaiging, stringhalts, stringybark, subrogating, subrogation, subtracting, supergiants, suppurating, surrogating, tapestrying, teargassing, trailerings, transacting, transducing, transecting, transfigure, transfixing, transfusing, translating, transmuting, transpiring, transposing, trapnesting, travestying, trespassing, trigeminals, tyrannising, unstartling, unstrapping, vanguardist, vegetarians, virginalist, wainwrights, waitressing, waterskiing, weatherings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Gastrin


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

47 61 73 74 72 69 6E

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)

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

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

01000111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0073 0074 0072 0069 006E

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

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

41678586847580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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