Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polyglutamine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English

Syllables: polyg-lu-tamine
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Involving more than one glutamine; (medicine) applied to a class of trinucleotide repeat disorder.

noun

A polymer of glutamine

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English glutamine English polyglutamine From poly- + glutamine.

Inflected Forms

polyglutamines (plural)

Phrases

polyglutamine disease polyglutamine tract

Questions

What does polyglutamine mean?: Involving more than one glutamine; (medicine) applied to a class of trinucleotide repeat disorder.
Where does polyglutamine come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English glutamine English polyglutamine From poly- + glutamine.

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