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Definition: TYROSIN |
TYROSINNoun1. A white crystalline nitrogenous substance present in small amount in the pancreas and spleen, and formed in large quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative. |
Etymology: Tyrosin \Tyr"o*sin\, noun. [Greek expression cheese.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: TYROSIN |
| English words defined with "TYROSIN": Erythrosin ♦ Neurokeratin. (references) |
| 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 |
tyrosin | 3 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TYROSIN": tyrosinase, tyrosinases, tyrosine, tyrosines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "TYROSIN" (pronounced 'Tyr"o*sin'): Alkarsin, Ambrosin, Amylopsin, Anchusin, BASIN, Biliprasin, Catch-basin, Cerasin, Ceresin, Cerosin, Chamsin, Cremosin, Crimosin, Damassin, Dyslysin, Erythrosin, Gentisin, Marcassin, moccasin, Monesin, Myosin, Myrosin, Pepsin, Phrenosin, Quassin, Raisin, Sarcosin, Sasin, Seisin, Sepsin, Spadassin, Steapsin, tocsin, trypsin, Unsin, Zuisin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: intros, nitros, rosiny. | |
-2 letters: intro, irons, irony, nitro, noirs, noisy, noris, ornis, riots, rosin, rotis, ryots, snort, stony, story, stroy, tiros, torsi, trios, trois, troys, tyros, yonis. | |
-3 letters: inro, into, ions, iron, nits, noir, nori, nosy, orts, rins, riot, rosy, roti, rots, ryot, snit, snot, sori, sorn, sort, stir, tins, tiny, tiro, tons. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-o-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: nitrosyl, sonority, storying, stroying, tyrosine. | |
+2 letters: antistory, caryotins, crayonist, drypoints, gyrations, karyotins, nervosity, nitrosyls, oystering, seniority, signatory, thyroxins, tyrosines. | |
+3 letters: anisotropy, arytenoids, consistory, countryish, crayonists, destroying, erythrosin, generosity, hydrations, insobriety, oysterings, propensity, roystering, sportingly, stationary, stationery, syndicator, thyroxines, transitory, tyrocidins, tyrosinase. | |
+4 letters: antibaryons, antileprosy, cosignatory, countryside, courtesying, decryptions, designatory, encryptions, erythrosine, erythrosins, frontolysis, grandiosity, hypertonias, incuriosity, inspiratory, keystroking, matronymics, misanthropy, monstrosity, nonindustry, notoriously, overstaying, patronymics, periphytons, personality, proselyting, pyroxenites, questionary, retinoscopy, rhinoplasty, sovereignty, strenuosity, syndicators, tensiometry, torsionally, trichogynes, tropomyosin, trypsinogen, tyrocidines, tyrosinases. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 59 52 4F 53 49 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- -.--. .-. --- ... .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01011001 01010010 01001111 01010011 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T Y R O S I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0059 0052 004F 0053 0049 004E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54595249534348 |
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