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Definition: Penicillamine |
PenicillamineNoun1. A drug (trade name Cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and Wilson's disease and severe arthritis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | 3-Mercapto-D-valine. The most characteristic degradation product of the penicillin antibiotics. It is used as an antirheumatic and as a chelating agent in Wilson's disease. (references) |
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Synonym: PenicillamineSynonym: Cuprimine (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: pca (medicine). |
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Health | Most cases are treated with the drugs zinc acetate, trientine, or penicillamine. (references) | |
Penicillamine and trientine increase urinary excretion of copper, however, both drugs can cause serious side effects. (references) | ||
Azathioprine, penicillamine, chlorambucil, vincristine sulfate, and colchicine have been used in a few patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. (references) | ||
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| "Penicillamine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Penicillamine" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "penicillamine": d-penicillamine. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
penicillamine | 14 |
d penicillamine | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "penicillamine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '霉胺. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | penicillamin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | penicillamine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | penisillamiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pénicillamine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Penicillamin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άτομο στο οποίο έχει δοθεί ένα χηλικό αντιδραστήριο,όπως η πενικιλαμίνη (a subject to whom a chelating agent, is given, such as penicillamine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | penicillamina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enicillaminepay penicilamina. (various references) penicilamina. (various references) penicillamin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "penicillamine": penicillamines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-n-p" | |
-3 letters: ampicillin, penicillia, penicillin. | |
-4 letters: millennia. | |
-5 letters: callipee, inimical, limacine, mainline, manciple, micellae, pinnacle, placemen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-n-p" | |
+1 letter: penicillamines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 69 63 69 6C 6C 61 6D 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. .. -.-. .. .-.. .-.. .- -- .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n i c i l l a m i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006E 0069 0063 0069 006C 006C 0061 006D 0069 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718075697578786779758071 |
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