hirudine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Other factors may contribute to the development of a hirudine constitution by causing primarily a decrease in the water and mineral content of the body."
- "Weill and Nouriquand conclude that under certain conditions hemorrhage may develop after leech applications in consequenc of a hemophilia due to hirudine. Investigations have been made showing that hirudine is a nucleoproteid, which they hope to demonstrate in the blood of such patients."
- "The antagonistic action of hirudine may be exerted at several stages of the coagulation of the blood. Hirudine can retard indefinitely the transformation of proserozyme into serozyme, can markedly retard the reaction between serozyme and cytozyme which produces thrombin, and can function as an antithrombin and neutralize the thrombin when the latter is formed."
Etymology
From Latin hirūdō (“leech”) + -ine.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more hirudine (comparative)
most hirudine (superlative)
hirudines (plural)