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Meaning of "ornithine" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ORNITHINE

From ornithuric ( acid) secreted in the urine of birds, from ornitho- + uric.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ORNITHINE

ornithine  [ˈɔːnɪˌθiːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORNITHINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ornithine is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ORNITHINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ornithine

Ornithine is an amino acid that plays a role in the urea cycle. Ornithine is abnormally accumulated in the body in ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.

Definition of ornithine in the English dictionary

The definition of ornithine in the dictionary is an amino acid produced from arginine by hydrolysis: involved in the formation of urea in the liver; diaminopentanoic acid. Formula: NH23CHNH2COOH.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ORNITHINE


disthene
ˈdɪsθiːn
ethene
ˈɛθiːn
hypersthene
ˈhaɪpəˌsθiːn
hypoxanthine
ˌhaɪpəˈzænθiːn
menthene
ˈmɛnθiːn
methylxanthine
ˌmiːθaɪlˈzænˌθiːn
naphthene
ˈnæfθiːn
perchloroethene
pəˌklɔːrəʊˈɛθiːn
polyethene
ˌpɒlɪˈɛθiːn
polythene
ˈpɒlɪˌθiːn
tetrafluoroethene
ˈtɛtrəˌflʊərəʊˈɛθiːn
xanthene
ˈzænθiːn
xanthine
ˈzænθiːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORNITHINE

ornith.
ornithic
ornithichnite
ornithischian
ornithodelphian
ornithodelphic
ornithodelphous
ornithogalum
ornithoid
ornithol.
ornithologic
ornithological
ornithologically
ornithologist
ornithology
ornithomancy
ornithomantic
ornithomorph
ornithomorphic
ornithophilous

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORNITHINE

acanthine
amaranthine
amianthine
chine
fax machine
hyacinthine
ianthine
Josephine
labyrinthine
machine
rhadamanthine
Rhine
sewing machine
shine
sunshine
terebinthine
thine
time machine
washing machine
whine

Synonyms and antonyms of ornithine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ornithine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ORNITHINE

Find out the translation of ornithine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ornithine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ornithine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鸟氨酸
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ornitina
570 millions of speakers

English

ornithine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ओर्निथिन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأورنيثين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

орнитин
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ornitina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ornithine
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ornithine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ornithine
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ornithin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オルニチン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오르니 틴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ornithine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ornithine
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒர்னிதைனில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑर्नीथिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ornitin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ornitina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ornityna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

орнитин
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ornitina
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ορνιθίνης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ornithinedecarboxylase
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ornitin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ornitin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ornithine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORNITHINE»

The term «ornithine» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.778 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ORNITHINE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ornithine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORNITHINE»

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Ornithine Transcarbamylase:: Basic Science and Clinical ...
Ornithine Transcarbamylase: Basic Science and Clinical Considerations, written by a leading expert on OTC, for the first time assembles and analyzes more than 40 years of basic science and clinical research.
Philip J. Snodgrass, 2003
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Nutrition Applied to Injury Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine
Ornithine is a dibasic amino acid derived from arginine that is not incorporated into proteins. Omi thine serves as a metabolic intermediate for production of urea, polyamines, and other amino acids (directly forms citrulline via the urea cycle, ...
Luke R. Bucci, 1994
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Mammalian Amino Acid Transport
catalysed by the mitochondrial matrix enzyme ornithine transcarbamylase. The transport of ornithine from cytosol to matrix and of citrulline from matrix to cytosol is thus an integral part of the urea cycle (Fig. 1). Ornithine is also a substrate for ...
M.S. Kilberg, D. Häussinger, 1992
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Hepatology: Textbook and Atlas
(157) The following table shows which of the amino acids involved in the urea cycle are available for therapeutic purposes: Arginine Ornithine aspartate (OA) = available Arginine + citrulline + ornithine = available Arginine aspartate Arginine  ...
Erwin Kuntz, Hans-Dieter Kuntz, 2009
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Ornithine decarboxylase: biology, enzymology, and molecular ...
A monograph on the current state of knowledge and problems regarding ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), the key enzyme for polyamine synthesis. Mammalian ODC is emphasized but plant and microbial ODC are also covered.
Shin-ichi Hayashi, 1989
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Inborn Metabolic Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment
Shih VE, Berson EL, Gargiulo M (1981) Reduction of hyperornithinemia with a low protein, low arginine diet and pyridoxine in pa- tients with a deficiency of ornithine- ketoacid transaminase (OKT) activity and gyrate atrophy of the choroid and ...
John Fernandes, Jean-Marie Saudubray, Georges van den Berghe, 2006
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Advances in Ornithine Research and Application: 2012 ...
Advances in Ornithine Research and Application / 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyPaperT'V' that delivers timely, authoritative, and intensively focused information about Ornithine in a compact format. The editors have built Advances in Ornithine ...
‎2012
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Class 2–3.2 Transferases, Hydrolases: EC 2–3.2
P N-succinyl-L-citrulline + phosphate S Additional information <3> (<3> Bacteroides fragilis uses N-succinyl-Lornithine rather than N-acetyl-L-ornithine for de novo arginine biosynthesis [1]; <3> no substrate: L-ornithine [1]) ( Reversibility: ?) ...
Dietmar Schomburg, Ida Schomburg, Antje Chang, 2013
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Thirty Years of Progress in Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and ...
Functional and kinetic properties of the purified ornithine carrier. In the experiments described in this and the following sections, the reconstituted system consists of purified ornithine carrier incorporated into liposomes. Fig. 2 shows the  ...
F. Palmieri, S. Papa, C. Saccone, 1995
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Sugar Alcohols—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 ...
“For the production of the ornithine-containing alcohol-free malt beverage of the present invention, an organic acid may be added to adjust the pH value of the product, in addition to using ornithine hydrochloride and ornithine aspartate in ...
‎2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ORNITHINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ornithine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ocera Therapeutics Sees Large Decrease in Short Interest (OCRX)
OCR-002 is ornithine phenylacetate, which functions as an ammonia scavenger. OCR-002 lowers ammonia in patients with cirrhosis when ... «sleekmoney, Jul 15»
2
Generation and isolation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells from …
Spheres obtained using either method are then plated into poly-L-ornithine/laminin-coated dishes (Step 31). We have found that plating ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Better Cell Culture through Metabolomics
For the second culture, only ornithine and citrulline showed strong positive correlations. In fact, ornithine supplementation accelerated cell ... «Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Jun 15»
4
Identification and functional characterization of a novel arginine …
Identification and functional characterization of a novel arginine/ornithine transporter, a member of a cationic amino acid transporter subfamily ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jun 15»
5
Suppression of acute pancreatitis by L-lysine in mice
In the experimental rodents, L-arginine induced partial inhibition of L-arginase enzyme, which converts L-arginine to L-ornithine and urea [21]. «BMC Blogs Network, Jun 15»
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Ocera Therapeutics to Present at the JMP Securities Life Sciences …
... Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of OCR-002 (ornithine phenylacetate) ... «Virtual-Strategy Magazine, Jun 15»
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Mutations of the functional ARH1 allele in tumors from ARH1 …
... J. ADP-ribosylation of human defensin HNP-1 results in the replacement of the modified arginine with the noncoded amino acid ornithine. «Nature.com, Jun 15»
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Ocera Therapeutics to Present at the Jefferies 2015 Healthcare …
... Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of OCR-002 (ornithine phenylacetate) ... «GlobeNewswire, May 15»
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Clinical outcomes and the mutation spectrum of the OTC gene in …
Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency is an X-linked inborn error of the urea cycle that leads to the accumulation of ammonia, resulting ... «Nature.com, May 15»
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Pharma Veteran Annalisa Jenkins On Gene Therapy And Patient …
Dimension recently announced drug development programs for two rare diseases — ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (a genetic defect of ... «Forbes, May 15»

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