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Tyrocidine

Definition: Tyrocidine

Tyrocidine

Noun

1. A basic polypeptide antibiotic derived from a soil bacterium; a major component of tyrothricin.

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


Specialty Definition: Tyrocidine

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Health

An antibiotic mixture produced by Bacillus brevis which may be separated into three components, tyrocidines A, B, and C. It is the major constituent (40-60 per cent) of tyrothricin, gramicidin accounting for the remaining 10-20 per cent active material. It is a topical antimicrobial agent, that is very toxic parenterally. (references)

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Synonym: Tyrocidine

Synonym: tyrocidin (n). (additional references)

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Derivations: Tyrocidine

Derivations

Words beginning with "tyrocidine": tyrocidines. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Tyrocidine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-o-r-t-y"

-1 letter: direction, tyrocidin.

-2 letters: centroid, cytidine, doctrine, idoneity, indicter, indictor, indirect, reindict, retinoid.

-3 letters: cindery, citrine, cointer, cordite, crinite, crinoid, ctenoid, deontic, dictier, diction, dineric, dinitro, diorite, edition, ericoid, identic, incited, inciter, inditer, neritic, nitride, noritic, noticed, noticer, oneiric, tindery, tyronic.

-4 letters: cinder, citied, citrin, citron, codein, coedit, coined, coiner, corned, cornet, cortin, credit, cretin.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-o-r-t-y"
 

+1 letter: tyrocidines.

 

+2 letters: hydrokinetic, interdictory.

 

+3 letters: discretionary, dryopithecine.

 

+4 letters: aerodynamicist, directionality, dryopithecines.

 

+5 letters: aerodynamicists, bidirectionally, disconcertingly, inconsiderately.

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Alternative Orthography: Tyrocidine


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 79 72 6F 63 69 64 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01111001 01110010 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0079 0072 006F 0063 0069 0064 0069 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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