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Definition: Cystine |
CystineNoun1. A crystalline amino acid found in proteins (especially keratin); discovered in bladder stones. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A covalently linked dimeric nonessential amino acid formed by the oxidation of cysteine. Two molecules of cysteine are joined together by a disulfide bridge to form cystine. (references) |
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Crosswords: Cystine |
| English words defined with "cystine": cysteine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cystine": cystine stone, Cystinuria ♦ disulphide bond, disulphide bridge, disulphides ♦ Trypsin Inhibitor, Bowman-Birk Soybean ♦ Urinary Calculi. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This can lead to the formation of stones made of cystine. (references) | |
A rare form of kidney stone consisting of the amino acid cystine. (references) | ||
Much less common are the uric acid stone and the rare cystine stone. (references) | ||
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Expression using "cystine": cystine stone. 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 |
cystine | 27 |
cystine stone | 10 |
l cystine | 9 |
crystal cystine | 5 |
chapel cystine | 4 |
cystine kidney stone | 3 |
acetyl cystine n | 2 |
cystine knot | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cystine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cystin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cystine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kystiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cystine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Cystin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυστίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cistina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ystinecay cistina. (various references) cistina. (various references) cystin, dicystein. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cystine": cystines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cystine" (pronounced 'Cyst"ine'): Amine, Apocodeine, Brabantine, Bronzine, Butylamine, Buxine, Cacaine, Caffeine, Carbamine, Codeine, Cross-examine, Erythrophleine, Lophine, Lydine, melamine, Methylamine, Monamine, Mytilotoxine, Myxine, Naphthylamine, Nardine, narine, nervine, Parkesine, Peptotoxine, Phenylamine, Phloramine, Phycophaeine, Preexamine, Quinoidine, reexamine, Rudolphine, serine, Sinamine, Stibine, Suine, Sylphine, Synallaxine, Tyrotoxine, Verine, Warine, Wrightine. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cystein. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: encyst, incest, insect, nicest, nicety. | |
-2 letters: cents, cesti, cines, cites, inset, neist, nites, scent, senti, since, stein, tines, tynes, yetis, yince. | |
-3 letters: cent, cine, cist, cite, city, cyst, etic, ices, nest, nets, nice, nite, nits, sect, sent, sice, sine, site, snit, snye, stey, stye, syce, sync, syne, tens, tics, ties, tine, tins, tiny. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: cyanites, cysteine, cysteins, cystines, cytosine, syenitic, syndetic, synectic. | |
+2 letters: asyndetic, cysteines, cytidines, cytokines, cytosines, encysting, hesitancy, insectary, intestacy, necessity, obscenity, sincerity, stridency, syncretic, syndicate, synthetic. | |
+3 letters: curtseying, cysteamine, cytogenies, dysenteric, dyskinetic, insecurity, insistency, isocyanate, myasthenic, stringency, strychnine, syncretise, syncretism, syncretist, syncretize, syndicated, syndicates, synergetic, synthetics, thylacines, transiency. | |
+4 letters: actinomyces, antisecrecy, astringency, consistency, countryside, courtesying, crystalline, cybernetics, cysteamines, cytokineses, cytokinesis, decryptions, encryptions, endocytosis, incessantly, insincerity, isocyanates, myasthenics, nonsystemic, persistency, persnickety, pinocytoses, predynastic, presciently, presynaptic, quiescently, retinoscopy, sectionally, strychnines, syncopative, syncretised, syncretises, syncretisms, syncretists, syncretized, syncretizes, synergistic, synesthetic, tenaciously, trichogynes, typecasting, typicalness, tyrocidines. | |
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