Lysine

/ˈlaɪsin/

Synonyms for "lysine" (13 found)

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Closest matches (3)

amino acid
Noun(2 words)
amino acid residuebasic amino acid

Strong matches (4)

Noun(4 words)
essential amino acidlysine bearinglysine containinglysine derivative

Related words (6)

Noun(6 words)
lysine relatedlysine saltlysine specificpolylysineprotein residueproteinogenic amino acid

Related word relations

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More general

9 entries
amino acidamino acid residuebiochemical propertybiomaterial polymerchemical derivativeessential amino acidmolecular compositionorganic compoundprotein component

More specific

15 entries
L-lysineacetylated lysineacetyllysinelysine biosynthesislysine containing compoundlysine containing enzymelysine containing peptidelysine hydrochloridelysine metabolismlysine residuelysine rich proteinlysine transportmethylated lysinepolylysineubiquitinated lysine

Collocations

11 entries
essential amino acidlysine containinglysine deficiencylysine hydrochloridelysine metabolismlysine residuelysine residueslysine richlysine transportpolylysineprotein synthesis

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

8 entries

Translations

32 translations across 31 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • лизин noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Catalan

1 entries
  • lisina noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 賴氨酸 /赖氨酸 noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)
  • 離胺酸 /离胺酸 noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Czech

1 entries
  • lysin noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Dutch

1 entries
  • lysine noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • lizino noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Finnish

1 entries
  • lysiini noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

French

1 entries
  • lysine noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

German

1 entries
  • Lysin noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Greek

1 entries
  • λυσίνη noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • ליזין noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • lizin noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Ido

1 entries
  • lisin noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Italian

1 entries
  • lisina noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Japanese

1 entries
  • リシン noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • лизин noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • лизин noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Latin

1 entries
  • lysina noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Latvian

1 entries
  • lizīns noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • lisinas noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Luxembourgish

1 entries
  • Lysin noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Persian

1 entries
  • لیسین noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Polish

1 entries
  • lizyna noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • lisina noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Romanian

1 entries
  • lizină noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Russian

1 entries
  • лизин noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Slovak

1 entries
  • lyzín noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Spanish

1 entries
  • lisina noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Swedish

1 entries
  • lysin noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Turkish

1 entries
  • lizin noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • лізин noun (essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Lysine is an essential amino acid required for many body functions, including growth and bone development in children; calcium absorption and maintenance of the correct nitrogen balance in the body; maintenance of lean body mass; production of antibodies, hormones, and enzymes; collagen formation and repair of tissue.

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