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Definition: Urokinase |
UrokinaseNoun1. Protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A drug that dissolves blood clots or prevents them from forming. (references) |
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Synonym: UrokinaseSynonym: plasminogen activator (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Urokinase |
| Specialty definitions using "urokinase": tissue-type plasminogen activator, t-PA. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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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| "Urokinase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.12% of the time. "Urokinase" is used about 41 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) | 95.12% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.88% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "urokinase": urokinase-type, urokinase-type-pa. | |
Ending with "urokinase": anti-urokinase, pro-urokinase. | |
Containing "urokinase": single-chain-urokinase-type. | |
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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 |
urokinase | 13 |
activator plasminogen urokinase | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "urokinase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | urokinase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | urokinase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | urokinaasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | urokinase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Urokinase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | urochinasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | okinaseuray urocinase. (various references) uroquinasa. (various references) urokinas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "urokinase": urokinases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "urokinase" (pronounced yer'ukunā"z) |
| 4 | -u n ā" z | Lyonnaise, polonaise. |
| 3 | -n ā" z | cabernets, nays. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-k-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: arenous, erasion, kauries, korunas, snakier, urinose. | |
-3 letters: ariose, arisen, arkose, arouse, arseno, arsine, arsino, eikons, enokis, inkers, insure, inures, irones, kaiser, kauris, kinase, knaurs, koines, koruna, norias, nosier, reason, reinks, resoak, rouens, rusine, senior, senora, sinker, soaker, souari, urines, ursine. | |
-4 letters: aeons, airns, anise, ankus, arise, arose, arson, asker, askoi, aurei, aures, auris. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-k-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: keratinous, urokinases. | |
+4 letters: backcountries, housebreaking. | |
+5 letters: housebreakings, troublemakings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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