Myosin

Definition: Myosin

Myosin

Noun

1. The commonest protein in muscle; a globulin that combines with actin to form actomyosin.

Etymology: Myosin \My"o*sin\, noun. [from Greek expression, muscle.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Health	Chief protein in muscle and the main constituent of the thick filaments of muscle fibers. In conjunction with actin, it is responsible for the contraction and relaxation of muscles. (references)
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Crosswords: Myosin

English words defined with "myosin": actomyosin ♦ rigor mortis. (references)

Specialty definitions using "myosin": Calcineurin ♦ Muscle Contraction, Muscle Proteins, Myofibrils, Myosin ATPase, Myosin Subfragments, Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase ♦ Troponin. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Myosin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (myosin).

Domain	Title
Books	The interaction of actin and myosin as the basic reaction in muscular contraction (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Myosin and actin protein molecules contained in muscles. Credit: NIAA.
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"Myosin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Myosin" is used about 21 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
Noun (singular)	100%	21	76,261

Expressions using "myosin": Myosin ATPase ♦ Myosin Heavy Chains ♦ Myosin Light Chains ♦ Myosin Subfragments. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "myosin": Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase.
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Language		Translations for "myosin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		肌球蛋白. (various references)

Dutch		myosine. (various references)

Finnish		myosiini. (various references)

French		myosine. (various references)

German		Myosin. (various references)

Greek		μυοσίνη. (various references)

Hebrew		שרירן (body builder). (various references)

Italian		miosina. (various references)

Pig Latin		yosinmay
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "myosin": myosins. (additional references)
	Words ending with "myosin": actomyosin, meromyosin, tropomyosin. (additional references)
	Words containing "myosin": actomyosins, meromyosins, tropomyosins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Myosin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: miaojin, midocean, miosin, Miosson, mitoxine, Moisan, mosan, Moshin, Mostin, Moswin, Moylinn, moysin, Mozkin, myrosin, mysen, Mysia, myson, yosi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "myosin" (pronounced mī"usun)
4	-u s u n	comparison, diocesan, garrison, jettison, medicine, unison, venison.
3	-s u n	aflatoxin, angiotensin, antitoxin, arson, assassin, basin, bison, bolson, businessperson, capsaicin, chairperson, chasten, christen, claxon, congressperson, damson, delicatessen, dioxin, Dobson, ensign, fasten, Gibson, glisten, hasten, Hyson, keelson, kelson, layperson, lessen, lesson, listen, loosen, Mason, moisten, Nelson, newsperson, oxen, oxytocin, parson, person, rechristen, rhodopsin, salesperson, spokesperson, toxin, washbasin, weatherperson, worsen.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: simony.
	Words within the letters "i-m-n-o-s-y"
	-1 letter: noisy, yonis.
	-2 letters: ions, miso, mons, mony, nims, noms, nosy, yins, yoni.
	-3 letters: ins, ion, ism, mis, mon, mos, nim, nom, nos, oms, ons, sim, sin, som, son, soy, syn, yin, yom, yon.
	-4 letters: in, is, mi, mo, my, no, om, on, os, oy, si, so, yo.
	Words containing the letters "i-m-n-o-s-y"
	+1 letter: isonomy, myosins, symbion.
	+2 letters: chymosin, cronyism, misogyny, moseying, syconium, symbions, symbiont, thymosin.
	+3 letters: amylopsin, animosity, anisogamy, chymosins, cronyisms, eponymies, hemolysin, hymnodies, hypnotism, isoenzyme, misogynic, misyoking, moonishly, mylonites, myotonias, myrmidons, neomycins, noisomely, ominously, parsimony, shamoying, solemnify, solemnity, symbionts, symboling, symphonic, synonymic, testimony, thymosins, viomycins, winsomely.
	+4 letters: actomyosin, amylopsins, amyotonias, antonymies, cockneyism, diseconomy, disharmony, doomsaying, hemolysins, homonymies, hydroniums, hypnotisms, hypomanias, imposingly, infamously, isoenzymes, isoenzymic, luminosity, luminously, mayonnaise, meromyosin, metonymies, miscopying, misogynies, misogynist, missionary, mitomycins, monogynies, mutinously, mycotoxins, myoglobins, neodymiums, polyamines, polymyxins, puromycins, pyromanias, sanctimony, semicolony, symbolling, symphonies, symphonist, synonymies, synonymist, synonymity, synonymize, toponymies, toponymist, womanishly, yeomanries, yohimbines.
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