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Penicillinase

Definition: Penicillinase

Penicillinase

Noun

1. Enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin and results in resistance to that antibiotic.

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Specialty Definitions: Penicillinase

DomainDefinitions

Health

A beta-lactamase preferentially cleaving penicillins. (Dorland, 28th ed) EC 3.5.2.-. (references)

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Synonym: Penicillinase

Synonym: beta-lactamase (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Penicillinase

English words defined with "penicillinase": oxacillinpenicillinase-resistant antibiotic. (references)
Specialty definitions using "penicillinase": Carbenicillin. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Penicillinase" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (penicillinase), Dutch (penicillinase).

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Expression: Penicillinase

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "penicillinase": penicillinase-resistant antibiotic.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Penicillinase

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  penicillinase

3
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Modern Translations: Penicillinase

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

Danish

  

penicillinase. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

penicillinase. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

penisillinaasi. (various references)

   

French

  

pénicillinase, pénicillinase. (various references)

   

German

  

Penicillinase, Penicillanase. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πενικιλλινάση. (various references)

   

Italian

  

penicillinasi (penicillin-destroying enzyme). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enicillinasepay

   

Portuguese

  

penicilinase. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

penicilinasa. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

penicillinas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Penicillinase

Derivations

Words beginning with "penicillinase": penicillinases. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Penicillinase

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-i-l-l-n-n-p-s"

-2 letters: penicillins.

-3 letters: penicillia, penicillin.

-4 letters: callipees, cisalpine, pinnacles, pliancies.

-5 letters: allicins, allspice, anilines, calipees, callipee, capelins, enplanes, especial, inclines, nacelles, panicles, pelicans, penalise, penances, penicils, pinnaces, pinnacle, piscinae, piscinal, salicine, salience, sapience, sepaline, spinelle, splenial.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-i-l-l-n-n-p-s"
 

+1 letter: penicillamines, penicillinases.

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Alternative Orthography: Penicillinase


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

50 65 6E 69 63 69 6C 6C 69 6E 61 73 65

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)

01010000 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006E 0069 0063 0069 006C 006C 0069 006E 0061 0073 0065

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

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

50718075697578787580678571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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