Definition of Purin

1. purine [n -S] - See also: purine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purin

purification
purifications
purificative
purificator
purificators
purificatory
purified
purifier
purifiers
purifies
puriform
purify
purifying
purile
purims
purin (current term)
purine
purinergic
purinergic receptor
purinergic receptors
purinergically
purines
puring
purinic
purinoceptor
purinoreceptor
purinoreceptors
purins
puris
purism

Literary usage of Purin

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

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Determinations of Nuclein and of purin Metabolism (a) Introduction The purin-content of the urine consists chiefly of combined and free uric acid; ..."

2. Pathological Physiology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"The purin bodies present in the human organism are derived from two chief sources. The first of these is the food, and purin bodies derived from this source ..."

3. The Elements of the Science of Nutrition by Graham Lusk (1917)
"purin, according to Fischer, may occur in the body, but on account of ... The relations between the purin bodies may be judged from the following formula? ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1906)
"practically speaking, waste products, demand early and rapid elimination. Probably all purin bodies, occurring in the urine, are derivatives of substances ..."

5. 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)
"purin, the mother-substance of these ' xanthin-bases,' contains a ... purin. The following formulae are arranged by the author in this order : purin ..."

6. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"The purin bases are always present. The carbohydrate group varies in ... The purin bases have a very close chemical relationship to uric acid, which, ..."

7. Chemical and Micoscopical Diagnosis by Francis Carter Wood (1909)
"purin BODIES The members of the purin group which have been found in the ... There seems to be no doubt, however, that a portion of the purin bases are ..."

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