Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

Syllables: nico-tinic acetyl-choline re-cep-tor
IPA

48

Scrabble Score

30

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A particular acetylcholine receptor which is also an ion channel.

Example Sentences

"These results lead us to propose that the nervous system expresses diverse forms of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by combining β2 subunits with different agonist-binding α subunits."

Inflected Forms

nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (plural)

Questions

What does nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mean?: A particular acetylcholine receptor which is also an ion channel.

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