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Definition of Purine
1. Noun. Any of several bases that are derivatives of purine.
2. Noun. A colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances.
Definition of Purine
1. Noun. (chemistry) Any of a class of organic heterocyclic base containing fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings; they are components of nucleic acids ¹
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Definition of Purine
1. a chemical compound [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purine
Literary usage of Purine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oxidations and Reductions in the Animal Body by Henry Drysdale Dakin (1922)
"CHAPTER V. THE purine DERIVATIVES. The purine bases occur in two forms in the
animal body—free and combined. The free purine bases, ..."
2. Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1920)
"The Synthesis of purine. When the sodium salt of uric acid is treated with ...
This, by reduction with water and zinc dust, gives purine itself— purine is ..."
3. Nucleic Acids: Their Chemical Properties and Physiological Conduct by Walter Jones (1914)
"The mother liquor is so free from purine bases as to reduce Fehling's solution
... Demonstration of the purine Ferments. A ferment may be able to cause an ..."
4. Manual of Chemistry: A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory Work for Beginners by William Simon (1916)
"purine DERIVATIVES. T'ric acid and substances formed from it by decomposition,
as well as other related nitrogen compounds were known for a long time. ..."
5. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum (1916)
"Disturbances in purine Metabolism.—Variations occur also in the quantities of
... Profound alterations arise in the metabolism of the purine substances, ..."
6. A Manual of Selected Biochemical Methods as Applied to Urine, Blood and by Frank Pell Underhill (1921)
"purine BASES Kriiger and Schmidt's Method1 Principle. ... The nitrogen content
of the precipitates of uric acid and purine bases is then determined by means ..."
7. Practical Physiological Chemistry by Sydney William Cole (1920)
"purine bases, other than uric acid. The most important of these found in normal
urine are hypoxanthine, xanthine and adenine (see p. ..."
8. Organic Agricultural Chemistry (the Chemistry of Plants and Animals): A by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1916)
"The simplest of these is xanthine, which is a di-hydroxy-purine. It is present
in urine and in animal tissues. Theobromine, the active constituent of the ..."
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