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Definition: Trypsin |
TrypsinNoun1. An enzyme of pancreatic origin; catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to smaller polypeptide units. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Trypsin \Tryp"sin\, noun. [Cr. rubbing, from to rub, grind. So called because it causes proteid matter to break up or to fall apart.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Pancreatic enzyme which breaks down proteins. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A serine endopeptidase that is formed from trypsinogen in the pancreas. It is converted into its active form by enteropeptidase in the small intestine. It catalyzes hydrolysis of the carboxyl group of either arginine or lysine. EC 3.4.21.4. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Together with pepsin and chymotrypsin, trypsin is one of the three principal digestive proteinases. It is produced by the pancreas, and works in the small intestine, where it degrades proteins to polypeptides and amino acids.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trypsin."
Crosswords: Trypsin |
| English words defined with "trypsin": enterokinase ♦ Pancreatic juice ♦ trypsinogen, Tryptic, Tryptone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trypsin": alpha 1-Antitrypsin ♦ Benzoylarginine Nitroanilide, Benzoylarginine-2-Naphthylamide ♦ Chymotrypsin ♦ Enteropeptidase ♦ Factor XIIa ♦ Leupeptins ♦ Myosin Subfragments ♦ Proenzymes ♦ Tissue Kallikreins, Trypsin Inhibitor, Bowman-Birk Soybean, Trypsin Inhibitor, Kazal Pancreatic, Trypsin Inhibitor, Kunitz Soybean, Trypsin Inhibitors. (references) |
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| "Trypsin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Trypsin" is used about 57 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% | 57 | 44,859 |
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Expression using "trypsin": Trypsin Inhibitors. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trypsin": trypsin-edta, trypsin-resistant. | |
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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 |
trypsin | 44 |
bovine inhibitor pancreas trypsin | 8 |
trypsin inhibitor | 6 |
alpha deficiency trypsin | 3 |
crayfish trypsin | 2 |
cell culture trypsin | 2 |
1 alpha anti deficiency trypsin | 2 |
enzyme trypsin | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "trypsin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | trypsin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trypsine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | immunoreaktiivinen trypsiini (immunoreactive trypsin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | trypsine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Trypsin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρυψίνη, θρυψίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tripsina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ypsintray tupsina. (various references) tripsina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trypsin": trypsinogen, trypsinogens, trypsins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "trypsin": chymotrypsin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "trypsin": chymotrypsinogen, chymotrypsinogens, chymotrypsins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "trypsin" (pronounced 'Tryp"sin'): Alkarsin, Amylopsin, BASIN, Biliprasin, Marcassin, Monesin, Pepsin, Quassin, Raisin, Sasin, Seisin, Sepsin, Steapsin, tocsin, Zuisin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: prints, sprint, stripy. | |
-2 letters: pints, pirns, print, pyins, spiny, spirt, spiry, sprit, stirp, strip, tipsy, trips. | |
-3 letters: nips, nits, pins, pint, piny, pirn, pits, pity, pyin, rins, rips, snip, snit, spin, spit, spry, stir, tins, tiny, tips, trip, tyin, yins, yips. | |
-4 letters: ins, its, nip, nit, pin, pis, pit, pry, psi, rin, rip, sin. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: trypsins. | |
+2 letters: drypoints, splintery. | |
+3 letters: anisotropy, interplays, panegyrist, partisanly, pristinely, propensity, pyrethrins, spinsterly, sportingly. | |
+4 letters: antileprosy, antipyreses, antipyresis, antipyrines, decryptions, encryptions, hypertonias, inspiratory, misanthropy, panegyrists, patronymics, periphytons, persistency, persnickety, personality, pharyngitis, predynastic, presciently, presynaptic, proselyting, pyroxenites, retinoscopy, rhinoplasty, serendipity, stipendiary, tapestrying, tropomyosin, trypsinogen, tryptamines. | |
+5 letters: antipyretics, arsenopyrite, attorneyship, chymotrypsin, discrepantly, dispensatory, hyperintense, hypersthenic, hypertension, hypertensive, interpsychic, intrapsychic, pantisocracy, persistently, phenocrystic, platyrrhines, playwritings, polycentrism, polyneuritis, prehensility, presbyterian, prostacyclin, protensively, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, rehypnotizes, scintigraphy, sempiternity, serpentinely, stereotyping, streptolysin, streptomycin, thyrotropins, tropomyosins, trypsinogens, typewritings. | |
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