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Definition: Xanthine |
XanthineNoun1. Crystalline oxidation product of the metabolism of nucleoproteins; precursor of uric acid; found in many organs and in urine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An urinary calculus. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The core compound, xanthine, is a product on the pathway of purine degradation and is converted to uric acid by the action of xanthine oxidase.
The structure of xanthine is:
Xanthines are purine derivatives and found very rarely in constituents of nucleic acids.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Xanthine."
Crosswords: Xanthine |
| English words defined with "xanthine": Theobromine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "xanthine": Guanine Deaminase ♦ hypouricaemia ♦ Oxypurinol ♦ Xanthine Alkaloids, Xanthine Dehydrogenase. (references) |
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| "Xanthine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Xanthine" is used about 13 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) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
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Expressions using "xanthine": dimethyl xanthine ♦ Xanthine Alkaloids ♦ xanthine calculi ♦ Xanthine Dehydrogenase ♦ Xanthine Oxidase. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "xanthine": hypoxanthine-xanthine. | |
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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 |
xanthine | 52 |
xanthine oxidase | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "xanthine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 黄嘌呤. (various references) | ||||
Danish | xanthinsten (xanthine calculi). (various references) | ||||
French | calculs xanthiniques (xanthine calculi). (various references) | ||||
German | Xanthinsteine (xanthine calculi). (various references) | ||||
Greek | ξανθίνη (xanthin). (various references) | ||||
Italian | xantina-guanina fosforibosil trasferasi (xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase), calcolo di xantina (xanthine calculi). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | anthinexay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "xanthine": xanthines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "xanthine": hypoxanthine, methylxanthine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "xanthine": hypoxanthines, methylxanthines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: xanthein. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-n-n-t-x" | |
-1 letter: xanthin. | |
-2 letters: innate. | |
-3 letters: anent, annex, axite, entia, henna, inane, neath, ninth, tenia, thane, thein, thine, tinea, xenia. | |
-4 letters: ante, anti, eath, etna, exit, haen, haet, hant, hate, heat, hent, hint, neat, next, nine, nite, nixe, tain, taxi, thae, than, then, thin, tine. | |
-5 letters: ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, axe, eat, eta, eth, hae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-n-n-t-x" | |
+1 letter: xantheins, xanthines. | |
+4 letters: hypoxanthine. | |
+5 letters: hypoxanthines. | |
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