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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: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Biliary
adjective · 78% connection
Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Bilin
noun · 78% connection
A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Bilious
adjective · 78% connection
Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an exces…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Bittersweet
adjective · 78% connection
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
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: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
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: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Chondrin
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of bo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Cyanuric acid
unknown · 78% connection
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Decoct
verb · 78% connection
To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Dyslysin
noun · 78% connection
A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Erythrogen
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Hippuric
adjective · 78% connection
Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Lactose
noun · 78% connection
Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
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: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Lithobilic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Metaphosphoric
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crysta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
Neurine
noun · 78% connection
A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefraction of p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, sweet, taste.
