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PKU

Definition: PKU

PKU

Noun

1. A genetic disorder of metabolism; lack of the enzyme needed to turn phenylalanine into tyrosine results in an accumulation of phenylalanine in the body fluids which causes various degrees of mental deficiency.

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

"PKU" is a common misspelling or typo for: pike, poke, pub, pug, pun, pup, put.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: PKU

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

PKU

GermanPhenylketonurieMedicine

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

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Synonym: PKU

Synonym: phenylketonuria (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: National PKU Monitoring Committee (public administration).

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Crosswords: PKU

English words defined with "PKU": PKU test. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PKU

DomainTitle

Books

  • Prefrontal Cortex Cognitive Deficits in Children Treated Early and Continuously for Pku (reference)

  • Memilih partai Islam : visi, misi, dan persepsi PKB, PBB, PUI, PKU, Keadilan, PPP, dll (reference)

  • Robert Guthrie--The Pku Story: Crusade Against Mental Retardation (reference)

  • Genetic Disorders Sourcebook: Basic Information About Heritable Diseases and Disorders Such As Down Synd Rome, Pku, Hemophilia, Von Willebrand diseas (reference)

  • Prefrontal Cortex Cognitive Deficits in Children Treated Early and Continuously for Pku (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development , No 252, Vol 62, No 4) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: PKU

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

PKU animal model(s) will be valuable in these studies. (references)

All States include PKU testing in their newborn screening programs. (references)

Even criteria for defining a positive PKU screen varies among States. (references)

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

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Expression: PKU

Expression using "PKU": pku test. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PKU

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

pku

234

pku test

26

pku diet

12

pku testing

8

pku food

7

pku disease

7

phenylketonuria pku

5

pku recipe

5

energy low pku

4

picture pku

4

pku screening

4

pku symptom

4

infant pku test

2

blood pku test

2

news pku

2

national news pku

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PKU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "k-p-u"

-1 letter: up.

 Words containing the letters "k-p-u"
 

+1 letter: puck, puke, punk.

 

+2 letters: kaput, pluck, plunk, pucka, pucks, puked, pukes, pukka, pulik, punka, punks, punky, spunk, tupik.

 

+3 letters: backup, cockup, fuckup, hookup, kaputt, kickup, linkup, lockup, lookup, makeup, markup, mockup, padauk, padouk, peruke, pickup, plucks, plucky, plunks, pucker, puking, punkah, punkas, punker, punkey, punkie, punkin, spunks, spunky, takeup, tupiks, unkept, unpack, unpick, upkeep, uplink, uptake, uptick, walkup, wikiup, workup.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PKU


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

50 4B 55

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01010000 01001011 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#75 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004B 0055

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

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

504555

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations 		9. Acronyms
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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