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Definition: Relaxin |
RelaxinNoun1. Hormone secreted by the corpus luteum during the last days of pregnancy; relaxes the pelvic ligaments and prepares the uterus for labor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | Hormone produced by the ovaries during pregnancy that loosens ligaments that hold the hip bones together. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Screenplays | Just relaxin. I'm serious honey, the world is being Fedexed to hell in a hand cart. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) | |
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Economic History | India | Opportunities also exists for relaxin, rennin, clot-dissolving agents, insulin, interferons, interleukins and anticancer therapeutics, human growth hormones, erythropoietin, blood factors VIII & XI, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator, streptokinase tissue necrosis factor. (references) |
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| "Relaxin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Relaxin" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
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Beginning with "relaxin": relaxin-softened. | |
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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 |
relaxin | 23 |
relaxin hormone | 5 |
pregnancy relaxin | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "relaxin": relaxing, relaxins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-x" | |
-1 letter: alexin, aliner, larine, linear, nailer, renail, xenial. | |
-2 letters: alien, aline, anile, ariel, axile, elain, laxer, learn, liane, liner, relax, renal, xenia. | |
-3 letters: airn, anil, aril, axel, axil, axle, earl, earn, elan, ilea, ilex, lain, lair, lane, lari, lean, lear, liar, lien, lier, line, lira, lire, nail, near, nixe, rail, rain, rale, rani, real. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-x" | |
+1 letter: relaxing, relaxins. | |
+2 letters: explainer. | |
+3 letters: explainers, fraxinella, inexorable, inexorably, luxuriance, relaxation. | |
+4 letters: alexandrine, alexandrite, exploration, externalise, externalism, externality, externalize, fraxinellas, intersexual, luxuriances, overexplain, relaxations. | |
+5 letters: alexandrines, alexandrites, exclusionary, exhilarating, exhilaration, exorbitantly, experiential, experimental, explorations, expressional, externalised, externalises, externalisms, externalized, externalizes, extracranial, inextricable, inextricably, intertextual, overexplains. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6C 61 78 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .-.. .- -..- .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101100 01100001 01111000 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e l a x i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006C 0061 0078 0069 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52717867907580 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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