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Definition: Creatine |
CreatineNoun1. An amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "creatine" was first used: 1840. (references) |
"Creatine" is a common misspelling or typo for: certain, creating, creation, creative, cretin. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An amino acid that occurs in vertebrate tissues and in urine. In muscle tissue, creatine generally occurs as phosphocreatine. Creatine is excreted as creatinine in the urine. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
About half of the creatine (Cr) in our body comes from the food we eat (mainly from meat and fish), while the other half is synthesized from certain amino acids (glycine, arginine) in the liver, pancreas and kidneys. 95% is stored in the skeletal muscles, the rest in the brain, heart and testes.
In the muscles, creatine is bound to phosphate and called phosphocreatine (PCr). Phosphocreatine is needed for the regeneration of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), an important muscular energy source.
There is scientific evidence that taking creatine supplements can increase an athlete's performance in high-intensity anaerobic exercise. Ingesting creatine can increase the level of phosphocreatine in the muscles by roughly 20%.
The marketing claims that creatine supplements also help to build muscle mass, however, are questionable. Athletes who take creatine do gain weight, but most of this weight gain is not muscle, but water (creatine takes water with it to the muscle cells). Also, creatine has no effect on aerobic exercise.
Creatine intake is not without risk. It can cause dehydration, and is dangerous for people with a kidney disease. Adolescents are advised against creatine use. Since the amount of creatine the body can absorb is limited, doses of over 20mg per day are pointless.
Creatine is not considered doping and is currently still acceptable to all sports-governing bodies.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Creatine."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CrP | English | Creatine Phosphate | Chemistry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CreatineSynonym: creatin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Creatine |
| English words defined with "creatine": creatine phosphate, creatine phosphoric acid ♦ phosphocreatine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "creatine": creatinaemia, Creatine Kinase. (references) |
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Health | Two other viruses in North America, Bayou and Black Creek Canal, cause HPS that fits the surveillance case definition, and the cases were recognized by clinicians as HPS. The few cases that have been evaluated seem to have more renal failure and higher elevations of serum creatine phosphokinase than the typical SNV infection. (references) | |
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| "Creatine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Creatine" is used about 25 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "creatine": Creatine Kinase ♦ Creatine Monohydrate ♦ creatine phosphate ♦ creatine phosphoric acid. Additional references. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
creatine | 3,466 | creatine phosphate | 23 |
creatine monohydrate | 284 | creatine side affect | 23 |
creatine side effects | 204 | creatine review | 23 |
creatine serum | 112 | eas creatine | 23 |
creatine information | 93 | creatine loading | 23 |
creatine supplement | 90 | benefit of creatine | 21 |
creatine kinase | 70 | creatine kidney | 20 |
effects of creatine | 68 | take creatine | 20 |
creatine fact | 58 | info on creatine | 20 |
liquid creatine | 56 | creatine study | 18 |
creatine use | 38 | creatine research | 18 |
creatine powder | 36 | creatine woman | 18 |
creatine clearance | 36 | is creatine safe | 15 |
cell tech creatine | 31 | creatine pill | 14 |
creatine phosphokinase | 29 | when to take creatine | 14 |
best creatine | 28 | creatine faq | 14 |
creatine danger | 27 | effervescent creatine | 14 |
trac creatine | 26 | sports nutrition creatine | 13 |
creatine fuel | 24 | german creatine | 13 |
creatine level | 23 | prolab creatine | 13 |
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| Language | Translations for "creatine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Kreatin-Phophokinase (Creatine Phosphokinase). (various references) | ||||
Greek | κρεατίνη. (various references) | ||||
Italian | creatina. (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | クレアチン燐酸 (clay, creatine phosphate, creator, creosote). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | クレアチンり"さ" (creatine phosphate). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eatinecray | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kreas. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "creatine": creatines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "creatine": phosphocreatine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "creatine": phosphocreatines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: centiare, increate, iterance. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: arenite, centare, ceratin, certain, creatin, crenate, enteric, enticer, reenact, retinae, tacrine, trainee. | |
-2 letters: acetin, canter, careen, carnet, carnie, centai, center, centra, centre, cerate, cerite, cetane, create, cretin, ecarte, enatic, entera, entice, entire, neater, nectar, ratine, recane, recant, recent, recite, retain, retina, retine, tanrec, tenace, teniae, tenrec, tierce, trance, triene. | |
-3 letters: actin, aerie, antic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: ancienter, centiares, certainer, cisternae, creatines, interface, interlace, iterances, nectaries, nectarine. | |
+2 letters: ancestries, apprentice, auctioneer, cantilever, catenaries, centauries, centigrade, centralise, centralize, certainest, creatinine, credential, deracinate, epicentral, execrating, execration, incinerate, interacted, intercaste, interfaced, interfaces, interlaced, interlaces, interocean, interspace, inveteracy, linecaster, mercantile, nectarines, recreating, recreation, reenacting, remittance, renunciate, resistance, reteaching, tetracaine, trancelike, transience, uncreative. | |
+3 letters: acquirement, actinometer, ancientries, antisecrecy, apprenticed, apprentices, areocentric, ascertained, atherogenic, auctioneers, awestricken, baronetcies, becarpeting, bicentenary, cabinetries, cantilevers, carpentries, celebrating, celebration, centenarian, centenaries, centralised, centralises, centralized, centralizer, centralizes, centripetal, cerebrating, cerebration, certainties, chanticleer, considerate, creatinines, credentials, crenelation, deprecating, deprecation, deracinated, deracinates, desecrating, desecration, determinacy, electrician, execrations, exorbitance, glycerinate, incarcerate, incinerated, incinerates, incremental, inheritance, insectaries, interactive, interagency, intercalate, intercensal, interchange, intercrater, interspaced, interspaces, intolerance, kitchenware, linecasters, metacentric, metanephric, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, paragenetic, parenthetic, pentarchies, praelecting, predicament, preenacting, reaccenting, reaccepting, recarpeting, recreations, recriminate, rectilinear, reeducating, reeducation, reincarnate, reinoculate, rejacketing, remittances, renunciates, resistances, revaccinate, rubefacient, teratogenic, tetracaines, transceiver, transiences, transpierce, underactive. | |
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