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Amyloid
noun · 78% connection
A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
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: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Cerebellum
noun · 78% connection
The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Cerebrin
noun · 78% connection
A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Cyanogen
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Dulcite
noun · 78% connection
A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artifici…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Ecgonine
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Erythrite
noun · 78% connection
A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decompos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Eucalyn
noun · 78% connection
An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Gentianose
noun · 78% connection
A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Glycocoll
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Gyrus
noun · 78% connection
A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Hyaline
noun · 78% connection
The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, suscepti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Indigo
noun · 78% connection
A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Isodulcite
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, sugarlike substance, obtained by the decomposition of certain glucosides, and intermediate in nature between the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Kephalin
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Kerasin
noun · 78% connection
A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.
Keratin
noun · 78% connection
A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sugarlike, body, obtained, decomposition, nitrogenous.