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NEURAMINIDASE

Specialty Definition: NEURAMINIDASE

DomainDefinition

Health

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of alpha-2,3, alpha-2,6-, and alpha-2,8-glycosidic linkages (at a decreasing rate, respectively) of terminal sialic residues in oligosaccharides, glycoproteins, glycolipids, colominic acid, and synthetic substrate. (From Enzyme Nomenclature, 1992) EC 3.2.1.18. (references)

Medicine

Viral enzyme which allows the flu virus to escape from infected cells. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: NEURAMINIDASE

Specialty definitions using "NEURAMINIDASE": HN ProteinInfluenzavirus A, B, Influenzavirus CMorbillivirusPneumovirusRubulavirusswine influenza virus, swine influenzavirus. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NEURAMINIDASE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Tumor Therapy With Tumor Cells and Neuraminidase (Contributions to Oncology, Vol 27) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: NEURAMINIDASE

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Surveillance for neuraminidase inhibitor-resistance has been initiated. (references)

The surfaces of influenza viruses are dotted with neuraminidase proteins. (references)

The neuraminidase inhibitors generally cause fewer side effects than the older flu drugs. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: NEURAMINIDASE

"NEURAMINIDASE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "NEURAMINIDASE" is used about 4 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 (proper)50%2245,945
Noun (singular)50%2245,945
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEURAMINIDASE

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

neuraminidase

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: NEURAMINIDASE

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

French

  

neuraminidase. (various references)

   

Italian

  

neuraminidase. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

euraminidasenay

   

Spanish

  

neuraminidasa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: NEURAMINIDASE

Derivations

Words beginning with "NEURAMINIDASE": neuraminidases. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: NEURAMINIDASE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-i-i-m-n-n-r-s-u"

-2 letters: minaudieres.

-3 letters: minaudiere, seminarian, undermines.

-4 letters: admeasure, deaminase, indamines, mandarins, marinades, meridians, muraenids, nursemaid, undermine, urinemias.

-5 letters: adenines, amandine, amenders, amidines, aneurins, aneurism, anserine, araneids, arsenide, denarius, diamines, duramens, enamines, ensnared, indamine, indamins, insnared, madeiras, maenades, mandarin, mannered, marinade, maunders, maundies, meanders, measured, meridian, minuends, mundanes, muraenid, nearside, neurines, reinsman, reinsmen, remained, remanned, semiarid.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-i-i-m-n-n-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: neuraminidases.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEURAMINIDASE


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

4E 45 55 52 41 4D 49 4E 49 44 41 53 45

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)

01001110 01000101 01010101 01010010 01000001 01001101 01001001 01001110 01001001 01000100 01000001 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#85 &#82 &#65 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#68 &#65 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0055 0052 0041 004D 0049 004E 0049 0044 0041 0053 0045

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

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

48395552354743484338355339

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INDEX

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


  

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