histidine

English

Alternative forms

• histidin (dated)

Etymology

histo-

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Noun

histidine (plural histidines)

1. (biochemistry) An essential amino acid C₆H₉N₃O₂ found in most animal proteins; essential for tissue growth and repair.

Derived terms

• hexahistidine
• histamine
• histidinase
• histidinate
• histidinemia
• histidinium
• histidinuria
• histidyl
• methylhistidine
• polyhistidine

 

Translations

essential amino acid; C₆H₉N₃O₂

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 組氨酸／组氨酸 (zh) (zǔ'ānsuān)

• Czech: histidin m
• Esperanto: histidino
• Finnish: histidiini
• French: histidine (fr) f
• German: Histidin (de) n
• Greek: ιστιδίνη (el) f (istidíni)
• Hungarian: hisztidin
• Irish: histidín m
• Japanese: ヒスチジン (hisuchijin)
• Kazakh: гистидин (gistidin)
• Kyrgyz: гистидин (gistidin)
• Persian: هیستیدین (histidin)
• Polish: histydyna f
• Portuguese: histidina f
• Romanian: histidină (ro) f
• Russian: гистиди́н (ru) m (gistidín)
• Spanish: histidina (es) f
• Swedish: histidin (sv)
• Turkish: histidin

Further reading

• histidine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dithiines

French

Noun

histidine f (plural histidines)

1. histidine

Further reading

• “histidine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.