Medical Definition of Speract

1. Sea urchin peptide hormone, from the jelly coat of the eggs of the sea urchins Strongylocentrotus purpuratus and Hemicentrotus pulcherrinus, affecting motility and metabolism. Receptor is a plasma membrane guanylate cyclase. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Speract

spendthrifts
spendthrift trust
spendy
spend a penny
Spengler
Spens' syndrome
spense
Spenser
Spenserian sonnet
Spenserian stanza
spenses
spent
spent
speos
speoses
speract (current term)
Spergula
Spergularia
Spergularia rubra
Spergula arvensis
sperling
sperling
sperlings
sperm
sperm
sperm-aster
sperm-ovum interactions
spermaceti
spermaceti
spermacetis

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