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Oxygenase

Definition: Oxygenase

Oxygenase

Noun

1. An oxidoreductase that catalyzes the incorporation of molecular oxygen.

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


Specialty Definitions: Oxygenase

DomainDefinitions

Health

Enzyme which breaks down heme, the iron-containing oxygen-carrying constituent of the red blood cells. (references)

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Synonym: Oxygenase

Synonym by domain: heme oxygenase (medicine).

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Crosswords: Oxygenase

Specialty definitions using "oxygenase": heme oxygenaseProcollagen-Lysine, 2-Oxoglutarate 5-Dioxygenase, Procollagen-Proline DioxygenaseTryptophan Oxygenase. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Oxygenase

DomainTitle

Books

  • Heme Oxygenase in Biology and Medicine (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Oxygenase

"Oxygenase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oxygenase" 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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Expression: Oxygenase

Expressions using "oxygenase": heme oxygenase Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing) Tryptophan Oxygenase. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "oxygenase": cyclo-oxygenase.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oxygenase

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

cyclo oxygenase

2
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Modern Translation: Oxygenase

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

Chinese 

  

氧酶. (various references)

   

French

  

hemè-oxigénase (heme oxygenase). (various references)

   

German

  

Hämoxygenase (heme oxygenase). (various references)

   

Italian

  

emeossigenasi (heme oxygenase). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oxygenaseay

   

Spanish

  

hemooxigenasa (heme oxygenase). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Oxygenase

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-o-s-x-y"

-2 letters: exogens, nosegay, oxygens.

-3 letters: agenes, agones, axones, exogen, genoas, onyxes, oxeyes, oxygen, saxony, senega, yogees.

-4 letters: aeons, agene, agone, agons, agony, axone, axons, exons, genes, genoa, goxes, nosey, ogees, oxeye, segno, yangs, yeans, yogas, yogee.

-5 letters: aeon, agee, ages, agon, anes, axes, axon, ayes, ease, easy, egos, engs, eons, exes, exon, eyas, eyen, eyes.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-o-s-x-y"
 

+1 letter: oxygenates.

 

+3 letters: deoxygenates.

 

+5 letters: deoxygenations.

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Alternative Orthography: Oxygenase


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

4F 78 79 67 65 6E 61 73 65

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)

01001111 01111000 01111001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#120 &#121 &#103 &#101 &#110 &#97 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0078 0079 0067 0065 006E 0061 0073 0065

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

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

499091737180678571

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Oxygenase"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, cinese, chino

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, francese, francés

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, tedesco, alemán

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italien, italienisch, italiano

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducción西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, inglese, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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