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hydroxymethylbilane

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hy-drox-ymethyl-bi-lane
IPA
46
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A molecule involved in the metabolism of porphyrin. It is generated by the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase and then converted into uroporphyrinogen III.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

hydroxymethylbilanes (plural)

Synonyms

HMB preuroporphyrinogen

Questions

What does hydroxymethylbilane mean?
A molecule involved in the metabolism of porphyrin. It is generated by the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase and then converted into uroporphyrinogen III.

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