Phosphatase

Definition: Phosphatase

Phosphatase

Noun

1. Any of a group of enzymes that act as a catalyst in the hydrolysis of organic phosphates.

Crosswords: Phosphatase

Specialty definitions using "phosphatase": 24,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D 3 ♦ Acid Phosphatase, Acid Phosphatase Test, Alkaline Phosphatase ♦ cdc25 Phosphatase, Cell Cycle Proteins ♦ Glycogen-Synthase-D Phosphatase ♦ Phosphatidate Phosphatase, Phosphoprotein Phosphatase, Phosphorylase a, Phosphorylase Phosphatase, prostatic acid phosphatase. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Phosphatase

Domain	Title
Books	Alkaline phosphatase (reference) Inactivation peroxidase, pectinesterase and alkaline phosphatase in polymers as a model for irradiation of dried foodstuffs (reference) Computer Simulation of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Reaction Mechanisms and Dihydrofolate Reductase Inhibition (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala dis (reference) Cerium As Capturing Agent in Phosphatase and Oxidase Histochemistry (reference) Prostatic acid phosphatase measurement : its role in detection and management of prostatic cancer (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Phosphatase

"Phosphatase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.21% of the time. "Phosphatase" is used about 112 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)	98.21%	110	30,952
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.79%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	112	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Phosphatase

Expressions using "phosphatase": Acid Phosphatase ♦ Acid Phosphatase Test ♦ Alkaline Phosphatase ♦ cdc25 Phosphatase ♦ Glycogen-Synthase-D Phosphatase ♦ Phosphatidate Phosphatase ♦ Phosphoprotein Phosphatase ♦ Phosphorylase Phosphatase ♦ prostatic acid phosphatase. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "phosphatase": phosphatase-antiphosphatase, phosphatase-conjugated.
	Ending with "phosphatase": (Lipoamide)-Phosphatase, alkaline-phosphatase, Glucose-6-Phosphatase, Histidinol-Phosphatase, immunoalkaline-phosphatase, Protein-Tyrosine-Phosphatase, Pyruvate Dehydrogenase (Lipoamide)-Phosphatase.
	Containing "phosphatase": alkaline-phosphatase-conjugated.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Phosphatase

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
alkaline phosphatase	183	alcaline phosphatase	3
adderall alkaline phosphatase	50	prostatic acid phosphatase	3
alkaline elevated phosphatase	20	alkaline phosphatase test	2
phosphatase	13	bone alkaline phosphatase	2
acid phosphatase	12	fluoride phosphatase	2
alk phosphatase	11	alkaline chemiluminescent phosphatase substrate	2
alkaline phosphatase serum	7	leukocyte alkaline phosphatase	2
alkaline phosphatase level	7	alkaline phosphatase osteoporosis	2
alkaline phosphatase high	5	alkaline high level phosphatase	2
alkaline low phosphatase	3	alkaline canine phosphatase	2
alkaline elevations phosphatase	3	acid isolation phosphatase wheat	2
alkaline phosphatase shrimp	3
		acid isolation phosphatase wheat	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Phosphatase

Language		Translations for "phosphatase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		phosphatase, fosfatase. (various references)

Dutch		fosfatase. (various references)

Finnish		fosfataasi. (various references)

French		phosphatase. (various references)

German		Phosphatase. (various references)

Greek		φωσφατάση. (various references)

Italian		fosfatasi. (various references)

Pig Latin		osphatasephay

Portuguese		fosfatase. (various references)

Romanian		fosfatazã. (various references)

Russian		фосфатаза. (various references)

Spanish		fosfatasa. (various references)

Swedish		fosfatas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Phosphatase

Derivations
	Words beginning with "phosphatase": phosphatases. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Phosphatase

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-h-o-p-p-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: phosphates.
	-2 letters: phosphate.
	-3 letters: pathoses, potashes, spathose, teashops.
	-4 letters: aphthae, apposes, petasos, poshest, sapotas, sapotes, sheaths, shoppes, spathes, teashop.
	-5 letters: aphtha, appose, ephahs, estops, hashes, hastes, heaths, hostas, paseos, pashas, pashes, pastas, pastes, pathos, pestos, phases, posset, potash, ptoses, sapota, sapote, shapes, sheath, shoats, shoppe, shotes, spates, spathe, stapes, staphs, stopes, tophes, toshes.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-h-o-p-p-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: phosphatases.
	+3 letters: metaphosphates.
	+5 letters: organophosphates.
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