Definition of Myosins

1. Noun. (plural of myosin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Myosins

1. myosin [n] - See also: myosin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myosins

myopically
myopics
myopies
myoprecursor
myoprecursors
myops
myopses
myopy
myosarcoma
myoscope
myoscopes
myoseki
myoses
myoseverin
myosin
myosins (current term)
myosis
myositic
myositides
myositis
myositis trichinosa
myositises
myosote
myosotes
myosotis
myosotises
myostatin
myotactic reflex
myotasis
myotatic

Literary usage of Myosins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physiology of the Domestic Animals: A Text-book for Veterinary and by Robert Meade Smith (1890)
"The myosins, obtained from the flour of wheat, rye. and barley, have similar properties; they are all readily soluble in 10 to 15 per cent, sodium chloride ..."

2. The Vegetable Proteins by Thomas Burr Osborne (1909)
"Experience has shown that such a distinction cannot well be made, inasmuch as many of the proteins which have been thus designated as myosins are, in fact, ..."

3. Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis: A Manual for the by Harvey Washington Wiley (1897)
"Vegetable globulins are found in the cereals, leguminous plants, papaws and other vegetables, and are divided into two groups, myosins and ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"... Plant-myosins are also precipitated by saturating their solutions with common ... and differ from the myosins in not being precipitated on saturating ..."

5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1898)
"Plant- myosins are also precipitated by saturating their solutions with common salt. ... and differ from the myosins in not being precipitated on saturating ..."

6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"The striking resemblance in composition of this proteid to the "myosins" found in the seeds of maize and oats, and also to animal myosin, is shown in the ..."

7. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"It is possible that these substances belong to the class of the myosins. Other chemical properties of these bodies are not known. ..."

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