sialic acid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of a group of amino carbohydrates that are substituted forms of neuraminic acid and can be components of glycoproteins and mucoproteins.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "1987, The FASEB Journal, Volume 1, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, page 231, We have previously shown that the study of O-acetyl esters on the sialic acids is fraught with difficulties."
- "Intralysosomal accumulation of free sialic acid both in vivo and in vitro in Salla disease is due to a defect of the transport mechanism of sialic acid in lysosomal membranes [Renlund et al, 1983b, 1986a, b; Mancini et al 1986]."
- "1997, International Journal of Oncology, Volume 10, Issue 4, Lychnia, page 761, Figure 3. Relationship between the disease-free survival rate and sialic acid expression in 100 breast cancer patients following curative surgery."