Renin

Definition: Renin

Renin

Noun

1. A proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys; catalyzes the formation of angiotensin and thus affects blood pressure.

"Renin" is a common misspelling or typo for: rein, rennin.

Specialty Definitions: Renin

Domain	Definitions
Health	An enzyme which is secreted by the kidney and is formed from prorenin in plasma and kidney. The enzyme cleaves the Leu-Leu bond in angiotensinogen to generate angiotensin I. EC 3.4.23.15. (Formerly EC 3.4.99.19). (references)
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Specialty Definition: Renin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Renin is an enzymatic hormone released by the kidneys in response to low blood volume. It acts by converting angiotensinogen into angiotensin I, which ultimately increases blood pressure in the renin-angiotensin system.

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Crosswords: Renin

Specialty definitions using "renin": Angiotensinogen ♦ Pepstatins ♦ Renin-Angiotensin System. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Renin" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (renin), German (renin).

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Commercial Usage: Renin

Domain	Title
Books	Heterogeneity of Renin and Renin-Substrate: Proceedings of the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension, New Orleans, (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Renin

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Renin (REE-nin), which regulates blood pressure. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Renin

"Renin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Renin" is used about 43 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%	43	52,181

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Expressions: Renin

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "renin": renin-angiotensin, Renin-Angiotensin System, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Renin

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
renin	16
renin angiotensin system	13
aldosterone angiotensin renin system	8
angiotensin renin	8
kidney renin	2
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Modern Translations: Renin

Language		Translations for "renin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		肾� . (various references)

Danish		renin. (various references)

Dutch		renine. (various references)

Finnish		reniini. (various references)

French		rénine. (various references)

German		Renin. (various references)

Greek		ρενίνη, νεφρίνη. (various references)

Italian		renina. (various references)

Pig Latin		eninray

Portuguese		renina (chymosine, rennin). (various references)

Spanish		renina (chymosin, chymosine, lab-ferment, rennet, rennin). (various references)
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Derivations: Renin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "renin": renins. (additional references)
	Words containing "renin": gangrening. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Renin"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "renin" (pronounced rē"nun)
3	-n u n	cannon, Canon, feminine, hemocyanin, Honan, Kronen, linen, melatonin, Mignon, ninon.
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Anagrams: Renin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: inner.
	Words within the letters "e-i-n-n-r"
	-1 letter: nine, rein.
	-2 letters: ern, inn, ire, rei, rin.
	-3 letters: en, er, in, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-n-n-r"
	+1 letter: dinner, endrin, ginner, inaner, inners, intern, narine, pinner, renins, rennin, sinner, tinner, winner.
	+2 letters: aginner, aneurin, bonnier, cannier, cinerin, dinners, earning, einkorn, endrins, engrain, entrain, enuring, environ, finnier, funnier, ginners, ginnier, grannie, grinned, grinner, inferno, innerly, innerve, insaner, insnare, interne, interns, intoner, inurned, kerning, narcein, nardine, nearing, negroni, nervine, nerving, neurine, pannier, pinners, punnier, reining, rending, rennins, renting, reunion, ringent, runnier, sinners, skinner, spinner, sunnier, ternion, thinner, tinners, tinnier, unrisen, vintner, wennier, winners.
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