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Albumin
noun · 78% connection
A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Asparagine
noun · 78% connection
A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Betaine
noun · 78% connection
A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Biuret
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Creatin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Creatinin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the acti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Dioxindol
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Elater
noun · 78% connection
The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica E…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Extract
noun · 78% connection
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Extractive
noun · 78% connection
Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hy…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Feldspath
noun · 78% connection
A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Glycoluril
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Glyoxime
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Hydrocarbostyril
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C9H9NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quino…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Hyoscyamine
noun · 78% connection
An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Hypoxanthin
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Isuret
noun · 78% connection
An artificial nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea, and forming a white crystalline substance; -- called also isuretine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.
Leucin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, found.