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Actomyosin

Definition: Actomyosin

Actomyosin

Noun

1. A protein complex in muscle fibers; composed of myosin and actin; shortens when stimulated and causes muscle contractions.

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Specialty Definitions: Actomyosin

DomainDefinitions

Health

A protein complex of actin and myosin occurring in muscle. It is the essential contractile substance of muscle. (references)

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Crosswords: Actomyosin

English words defined with "actomyosin": actinmyosin. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Actomyosin

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Books

  • Cardiomyopathy associated with systemic myopathy : genetic defect of actomyosin influencing muscular structure and function (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Modern Translations: Actomyosin

Language Translations for "actomyosin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

肌动球蛋白. (various references)

   

Danish

  

actomyosin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

actomyosine. (various references)

   

French

  

actomyosine. (various references)

   

German

  

Aktomyosin. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ακτομυοσίνη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

actomiosina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

actomyosinay

   

Portuguese

  

actomiosina. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

актомиозин. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

actinomiosina. (various references)

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Derivations: Actomyosin

Derivations

Words beginning with "actomyosin": actomyosins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Actomyosin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-o-s-t-y"

-1 letter: myotonias, onomastic.

-2 letters: amotions, monastic, myotonia, myotonic.

-3 letters: actions, amotion, anosmic, atomics, atonics, camions, cations, isonomy, maniocs, manitos, masonic, motions, myotics, oomiacs, osmatic, osmotic, scotoma, somatic, syconia, tycoons.

-4 letters: actins, action, amnios, anomic, antics, astony, atomic, atonic, camion, cantos, casino, cation, coatis, comity, contos, cotans, cytons, inmost, macons, manics, manioc, manito, mantic, mantis, mascon, mascot, mastic, matins, misact, monist, mosaic, motion, myosin, myotic, mystic, nastic, nostoc, octans, oocyst, oomiac, ostomy, sanity, satiny, scanty, scotia, simony, simoon, sitcom, snooty, socman, syncom, tocsin, tomans, tonics, toyons, tycoon.

-5 letters: actin, amino, amins, amity, amnic, amnio, anomy, antic, antis, antsy, ascot, atoms, atomy, atony, ayins, cains, canso, canst, canto, cants, canty, cions, coast, coati, coats, coins, comas, conto, coons, coots, costa, cotan, cyano, cyans, cymas, cyton, icons, iotas, macon, mains, maist, manic, manos, mason, matin, mayos, mayst, micas, minas, mincy, mints, minty, misty, moans, moats, moist, monas, monos, moons, moony, moots, mynas, nasty, noisy, nomas, nomoi, nomos, octan, omits, ontic, osmic, ostia, saint, santo, satin, scant, scion, scoot, snoot, sonic, sooty, stain, stimy, stoai, stoic, stoma, stony, tacos, tains, tamis, tansy, toman, tonic, toons, toyon, toyos, yonic, yonis.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-o-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: actomyosins.

 

+2 letters: monosynaptic.

 

+3 letters: actinomycoses, actinomycosis, onomastically.

 

+4 letters: actinomycetous, astronomically, contumaciously, cytotaxonomies.

 

+5 letters: ancylostomiases, ancylostomiasis, compassionately, compositionally, gastronomically, monocrystalline, monosyllabicity, sanctimoniously.

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Alternative Orthography: Actomyosin


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

41 63 74 6F 6D 79 6F 73 69 6E

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001 01101111 01110011 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0074 006F 006D 0079 006F 0073 0069 006E

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

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

35698681799181857580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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