Usually means: Amino acid containing sulfur atom.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. cysteine: Merriam-Webster
  2. cysteine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cysteine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cysteine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cysteine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cysteine, cysteine: Wordnik
  7. cysteine: Wiktionary
  8. cysteine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cysteine: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cysteine: Dictionary.com
  11. Cysteine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cysteine: Rhymezone
  13. cysteine: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cysteine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cysteine: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cysteine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. cysteine: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cysteine: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  7. cysteine: Medical dictionary
  8. Cysteine: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cysteine)

▸ noun:  (biochemistry) A sulphur-containing nonessential amino acid C₃H₇NO₂S found in most animal proteins; it readily oxidizes to cystine.

Similar:
cystein, cystine, cystathionine, cysteinate, cystinyl, cysteinal, cystathionin, sulfocysteine, cysteic acid, dicysteine, more...

Types:
protein, amino acid, peptide, more...

Phrases:
cysteine hydrochloride, cysteine synthase, cysteine dioxygenase, cysteine endopeptidases, n-acetyl cysteine, more...

Adjectives:
acetyl, acid, terminal, free, active, conserved, single, methyl, site, carboxymethyl, reactive

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Similar:
cystein, cystine, cystathionine, cysteinate, cystinyl, cysteinal, cystathionin, sulfocysteine, cysteic acid, dicysteine, more...

Types:
protein, amino acid, peptide, more...

Phrases:
cysteine hydrochloride, cysteine synthase, cysteine dioxygenase, cysteine endopeptidases, n-acetyl cysteine, n acetyl cysteine, l cysteine, glutamate cysteine ligase, n acetyl l cysteine, Cysteine protease, more...

Adjectives:
acetyl, acid, terminal, free, active, conserved, single, methyl, site, carboxymethyl, reactive



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