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Definition: Porphyrin |
PorphyrinNoun1. Any of various pigments distributed widely in living tissues. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Chemistry | Large complex organic ring compound made up of four substituted pyrrole rings, in addition to other rings. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
If one of the four pyrrole subunits is reduced, a chlorin is produced, the ring structure found in chlorophyll. If two of the four pyrrole subunits are reduced, then you get a bacteriochlorin, found in some photosynthetic bacteria.
See also: porphyria
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Porphyrin."
Crosswords: Porphyrin |
| Specialty definitions using "porphyrin": Chelating Agents ♦ Iron Chelating Agents ♦ Porphyria, Hepatic. (references) |
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Health | Porphyrin is used to make heme, the part of blood that carries oxygen. (references) | |
Any circulating porphyrin the body doesn't use is excreted in urine and stool. (references) | ||
Porphyria is a disorder in which the body produces too much of the chemical porphyrin. (references) | ||
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| "Porphyrin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Porphyrin" is used about 7 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
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Beginning with "porphyrin": porphyrin-based, porphyrin-quinones. | |
Ending with "porphyrin": iron-porphyrin. | |
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| 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. |
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porphyrin | 7 |
porphyrin product | 2 |
application porphyrin | 2 |
carbon monoxide porphyrin | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "porphyrin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 卟啉. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | porphyringruppen findes i haemoglobiner,myoglobiner,catalase og peroxidaser,cytochromer,chlorophyll og vitamin B 12 (in catalase and peroxydases, in chlorophyll and vitamin B 12, in cytochromes, myoglobins, porphyrin groups are found in haemoglobins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | de porfyrinen worden aangetroffen in hemoglobines,myoglobines,katalase,peroxydasen,cytochromen,chlorofyl en vitamine B 12 (in catalase and peroxydases, in chlorophyll and vitamin B 12, in cytochromes, myoglobins, porphyrin groups are found in haemoglobins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | on retrouve le groupement porphyrinique dans les hémoglobines,les myogobines,dans la catalase et les peroxydases,dans les cytochromes,dans la chlorophylle et la vitamine B 12 (porphyrin groups are found in haemoglobins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | man findet die Gruppe der Porphyrine in Haemoglobin,Myoglobin,Katalase,Peroxydasen,Cytochromen,Chlorophyll und Vitamin B 12 (in catalase and peroxydases, in chlorophyll and vitamin B 12, in cytochromes, myoglobins, porphyrin groups are found in haemoglobins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ομάδες της πορφυρίνης βρίσκονται στις αιμοσφαιρίνες,μυοσφαιρίνες,στην καταλάση και στις υπεροξειδάσες,στα κυτοχρώματα,στη χλωροφύλη και (porphyrin groups are found in haemoglobins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | il gruppo porfirinico si trova nelle emoglobine,nelle mioglobine,nella catalasi,nella perossidasi,nei citocromi,nella clorofilla e nella vitamina B 12 (in catalase and peroxydases, in chlorophyll and vitamin B 12, in cytochromes, myoglobins, porphyrin groups are found in haemoglobins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orphyrinpay o grupo porfirínico encontra-se nas hemoglobinas,nas moglobinas,na catalase e nas peroxidases,nos citocromos,na clorofila e na vitamina B12 (in catalase and peroxydases, in chlorophyll and vitamin B 12, in cytochromes, myoglobins, porphyrin groups are found in haemoglobins). (various references) se encuentran grupos porfirínicos en las hemoglobinas, mioglobinas, en las catalasas y peroxidasas, en los citocromos, en la clorofila y en la vitamina B12 (in catalase and peroxydases, in chlorophyll and vitamin B 12, in cytochromes, myoglobins, porphyrin groups are found in haemoglobins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "porphyrin": porphyrins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "porphyrin": hematoporphyrin, protoporphyrin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "porphyrin": hematoporphyrins, protoporphyrins. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-y" | |
-3 letters: priory. | |
-4 letters: hippo, hippy, hoppy, horny, irony, nippy, orpin, phony, porny, prion, prior, rhino. | |
-5 letters: horn, hypo, inro, iron, noir, nori, phon, piny, pion, pipy, pirn, pony, porn, prop, pyin, ropy, yirr, yoni. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: porphyrins. | |
+3 letters: porphyropsin. | |
+4 letters: porphyropsins. | |
+5 letters: hypertrophying, protoporphyrin. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 72 70 68 79 72 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-. .--. .... -.--. .-. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110010 01110000 01101000 01111001 01110010 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o r p h y r i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0072 0070 0068 0079 0072 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508184827491847580 |
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