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Streptokinase

Definition: Streptokinase

Streptokinase

Noun

1. An enzyme produced by some strains of streptococcus that can liquefy blood clots by converting plasminogen to plasmin; used medicinally in some cases of myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism.

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


Specialty Definition: Streptokinase

DomainDefinition

Health

Streptococcal fibrinolysin . An enzyme produced by hemolytic streptococci. It hydrolyzes amide linkages and serves as an activator of plasminogen. It is used in thrombolytic therapy and is used also in mixtures with streptodornase (streptodornase and streptokinase). EC 3.4.-. (references)

Medicine

An enzyme capable of changing plasminogen into plasmin. Source: European Union. (references)

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Crosswords: Streptokinase

English words defined with "streptokinase": streptodornase. (references)
Specialty definitions using "streptokinase": AnistreplaseStreptodornase and Streptokinasetissue-type plasminogen activator, t-PA. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Streptokinase

DomainTitle

Books

  • Streptokinase in chronic arterial disease (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Streptokinase

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Streptokinase

"Streptokinase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Streptokinase" is used about 28 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)96.43%2766,962
Lexical Verb (infinitive)3.57%1339,140
                    Total100.00%28N/A

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

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Expression: Streptokinase

Expression using "streptokinase": Streptodornase and Streptokinase. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "streptokinase": streptokinase-treated.

Ending with "streptokinase": anti-streptokinase.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Streptokinase

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

streptokinase

23
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Modern Translation: Streptokinase

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

Danish

  

streptokinase. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

streptokinase. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

streptokinaasi. (various references)

   

French

  

streptokinase. (various references)

   

German

  

Streptokinasum, Streptokinase. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στρεπτοκινάση. (various references)

   

Italian

  

streptochinasi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eptokinasestray

   

Portuguese

  

estreptoquinase. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estreptoquinasa. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

streptokinas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Streptokinase

Derivations

Words beginning with "streptokinase": streptokinases. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Streptokinase"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "streptokinase" (pronounced stre'ptukī"nā's or stre'ptōkī"nā'z)
3-n ā' zmayonnaise.

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Anagrams: Streptokinase

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: proteinases.

-3 letters: interposes, orientates, patronises, persistent, personates, pinsetters, pistareens, poetasters, poststrike, presentist, prettiness, proteinase, protistans, reinstates, sparteines, stationers, streakiest, striptease, tapestries.

-4 letters: anisettes, ankerites, antipress, aperients, arsenites, aspersion, assertion, atropines, earstones, entrepots, entropies, insetters, instrokes, interests, interpose, irateness, isoprenes, keratoses, keratosis, kerosines, nepotists, noisettes, operettas, orientate, passerine, patentors, patienter, patroness, patronise, periostea, peritonea.

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

+1 letter: streptokinases.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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