Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phosphometabolite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phos-pho-metabo-lite
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any metabolite that contains a phosphate (or similar) group

Example Sentences

"Our study uncovered age-dependent decline in phosphometabolite turnover rates and dynamic energetic rearrangements in aging rat atria with simultaneous phosphotransfer circuit and mitochondrial substrate shuttle deficits hindering ATP cycling that may underlie the vulnerability of the whole energetic system, muscle weakness and electrical instability."

Etymology

From phospho- + metabolite.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: phospho

Inflected Forms

phosphometabolites (plural)

Questions

What does phosphometabolite mean?: Any metabolite that contains a phosphate (or similar) group
Where does phosphometabolite come from?: From phospho- + metabolite.

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