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Protamine

Definition: Protamine

Protamine

Noun

1. A simple protein found in fish sperm; rich in arginine; simpler in composition than globulin or albumin; counteracts the anticoagulant effect of heparin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Protamine

Specialty definitions using "protamine": Insulin, Isophane, Insulin, Protamine Zinc. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Protamine

"Protamine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Protamine" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)80%4175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Expression: Protamine

Expression using "protamine": Protamine Kinase. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Protamine

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

protamine

15

protamine sulfate

8

insulin protamine zinc

4

exchange histone protamine

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Protamine

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

Danish

  

protamin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

protaminezinkinsulin injectie (protamine zinc insulin injection), protaminesulfaat (protamine sulphate). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

insuliinisinkkiglobuliini-injektio (protamine zinc insulin injection). (various references)

   

French

  

sulfate de protamine (protamine sulphate), soluté neutre injectable d'insuline (protamine zinc insulin injection), méthode de dosage de l'héparine par la protamine (protamine titration after Allen und Ma), index de protamine (protamine index). (various references)

   

German

  

Protaminzinkinsulininjektion (protamine zinc insulin injection), Protamintitration Allen und Ma (protamine titration after Allen und Ma), Protaminsulfat (protamine sulphate), Protaminindex (protamine index), Polybren-Index (protamine index), Toluidinblau-Index (protamine index). (various references)

   

Italian

  

solfato di protammina (protamine sulphate), insulina-zinco protaminato iniettabile (protamine zinc insulin injection). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otaminepray

   

Portuguese

  

sulfato de protamina (protamine sulphate), injecção neutra de insulina (protamine zinc insulin injection), índice de protamina (protamine index). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

titulación de protamina de Allen-Ma (protamine titration after Allen und Ma), sulfato de protamina (protamine sulphate), inyectable neutro de insulina (protamine zinc insulin injection), índice de protamina (protamine index). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

protaminzinkinsulin för injektion (protamine zinc insulin injection). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Protamine

Derivations

Words beginning with "protamine": protamines. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Protamine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-o-p-r-t"

-1 letter: atropine, orpiment, protamin, ptomaine.

-2 letters: amniote, atropin, emporia, maintop, manrope, meropia, minaret, moraine, operant, painter, pertain, pimento, pointer, primate, promine, pronate, protean, protein, ptomain, raiment, rampion, repaint, romaine, tampion, timpano, tonearm, tropine.

-3 letters: airmen, anomie, armpit, aroint, arpent, atoner, enamor, enrapt, entrap, etamin, imaret, impart, impone, import, inmate, manito, marine, marten, martin, matron.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-o-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: importance, permeation, portamenti, protamines, trampoline.

 

+2 letters: aminopterin, emancipator, impersonate, impetration, importances, importunate, imprecation, impregnator, metanephroi, misanthrope, patrimonies, permeations, permutation, predominant, predominate, prenominate, preromantic, trampoliner, trampolines.

 

+3 letters: aminopterins, emancipators, enantiomorph, impersonated, impersonates, impersonator, impetrations, importancies, imprecations, impregnation, impregnators, intercompany, intercompare, metropolitan, misanthropes, operationism, permutations, predominated, predominates, preformation, premigration, prenominated, prenominates, reassumption, trampoliners, unimportance.

 

+4 letters: anisometropia, anisometropic, apportionment, cinematograph, complimentary, enantiomorphs, hyperromantic, immunotherapy, impersonality, impersonating, impersonation, impersonators, importunately, impregnations, intercompared, intercompares, interproximal, metropolitans, misanthropies, mousetrapping, nonparametric, operationisms, paramountcies, perambulation, permutational, predominantly, predominately, predominating, predomination, preformations, preformatting, premeditation, prenominating, prenomination, preordainment, proximateness, reappointment, reassumptions, recompilation, recomputation, reimportation, spermatogenic, spermatogonia, sportsmanlike, superromantic, temporalizing, temporariness, temporization, unimportances, unproblematic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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


  

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