Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

muco-series

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

Syllables: mu-co-series
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,3)Galβ(1,4)Galβ(1,4)Glcβ-Cer (galactose, galactose, galactose, glucose, ceramide)

Example Sentences

"Several hundred eukaryotic cell surface glycolipid structures are known, and they belong to different core saccharide series such as the lacto-, the ganglio-, the globo-, or the muco-series."
"A neutral glycosphingolipid (GSL) that is the common precursor of the ganglio-, globo-, globoiso-, lacto-, neolacto-, and muco-series of GSL."
"Except for members of the muco–series that have so far only been reported from the laboratory of Slomiany (for review, see (10)), gangliosides belonging to all other carbohydrate series present in vertebrates have been characterised."

Inflected Forms

mucoseries (alternative) muco series (alternative)

Phrases

arthro-series gala-series mollu-series neogala-series neolacto-series schisto-series spirometo-series

Frequently Paired Words

arthro-series gala-series ganglioseries globoseries isogloboseries lactoseries mollu-series neogala-series

Questions

What does muco-series mean?: A class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,3)Galβ(1,4)Galβ(1,4)Glcβ-Cer (galactose, galactose, galactose, glucose, ceramide)

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