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SERPINS

Specialty Definition: SERPINS

DomainDefinition

Health

A family of serine proteinase inhibitors which are similar in amino acid sequence and mechanism of inhibition, but differ in their specificity toward proteolytic enzymes. This family includes alpha 1-antitrypsin, angiotensinogen, ovalbumin, antiplasmin, alpha 1-antichymotrypsin, thyroxine-binding protein, complement 1 inactivators, antithrombin III, heparin cofactor II, plasminogen inactivators, gene Y protein, placental plasminogen activator inhibitor, and barley Z protein. Some members of the serpin family may be substrates rather than inhibitors of serine endopeptidases, and some serpins occur in plants where their function is not known. (references)

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

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Commercial Usage: SERPINS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chemistry and Biology of Serpins (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 425) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: SERPINS

"SERPINS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "SERPINS" is used about 4 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 (proper)75%3202,518
Noun (plural)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SERPINS

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

serpins

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

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Anagrams: SERPINS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: snipers.

Words within the letters "e-i-n-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: pisser, prises, repins, resins, rinses, ripens, serins, sirens, sniper, snipes, speirs, spiers, spines, spires.

-2 letters: peins, penis, peris, piers, pines, pirns, press, pries, prise, priss, reins, repin, resin, rinse, ripen, ripes, risen, rises, serin, sines, sipes, siren, sires, snipe, snips, speir, spier, spies, spine, spins, spire.

-3 letters: erns, ires, ness, nips, pein, pens.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-n-p-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: crispens, erepsins, inspires, pilsners, pressing, primness, princess, ripeness, ropiness, snippers, spinners, spinster, springes.

 

+2 letters: antipress, aspersing, aspersion, conspires, crispness, dispenser, grapiness, incorpses, inspheres, inspirers, isoprenes, nephrisms, nephrosis, overspins, passerine, perkiness, phrensies, pilseners, pinasters, pinschers, poisoners, preassign, prerinses, prescinds, pressings, primeness, princesse, printless, prisoners, pristanes, prosiness, punishers, pursiness, rapidness, repassing, resprings, speerings, spermines, spindlers, spinsters, splinters, springers, sprinkles, sprinters, winepress.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SERPINS


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

53 45 52 50 49 4E 53

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)

01010011 01000101 01010010 01010000 01001001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#82 &#80 &#73 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 0052 0050 0049 004E 0053

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

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

53395250434853

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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