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NEUROTENSIN

Specialty Definition: NEUROTENSIN

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Health

A biologically active tridecapeptide isolated from the hypothalamus. It has been shown to induce hypotension in the rat, to stimulate contraction of guinea pig ileum and rat uterus, and to cause relaxation of rat duodenum. There is also evidence that it acts as both a peripheral and a central nervous system neurotransmitter. (references)

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

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Crosswords: NEUROTENSIN

Specialty definitions using "NEUROTENSIN": Receptors, Neurotensin. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NEUROTENSIN

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Books

  • Neurotensin, a brain and gastrointestinal peptide (reference)

  • The Neurobiology of Neurotensin (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 668) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: NEUROTENSIN

"NEUROTENSIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NEUROTENSIN" is used about 3 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%3202,518

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

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Anagrams: NEUROTENSIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-n-n-o-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: nonentries.

-2 letters: neutrinos, nunneries, tensioner, trunnions.

-3 letters: enterons, esurient, intenser, internes, intoners, neurines, neurones, neutrino, neutrons, oneriest, retinues, reunions, reunites, routines, runniest, serotine, snoutier, tenoners, ternions, trunnion.

-4 letters: enteron, entires, entries, estrone, intense, interne, interns, intoner, intones, introns, inturns, neurine, neurone, neurons, neuston, neuters, neutron, nitrous, nonsuit, nonuser, norites, nutsier, oestrin, orients, outseen, rennets.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-n-n-o-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: interneurons.

 

+3 letters: nonintercourse, supercontinent.

 

+4 letters: counterinstance, inopportuneness, mountaineerings, nonintercourses, nonuniversities, supercontinents, superconvenient.

 

+5 letters: counterinstances, counterinsurgent, nondocumentaries, pronunciamentoes, undernourishment.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEUROTENSIN


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

4E 45 55 52 4F 54 45 4E 53 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)

01001110 01000101 01010101 01010010 01001111 01010100 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#85 &#82 &#79 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#83 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0055 0052 004F 0054 0045 004E 0053 0049 004E

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

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

4839555249543948534348

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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