n. 酪氨酸

[化] 酪氨酸; 3-对羟苯基丙氨酸

[医] 酪氨酸

[ noun ]
an amino acid found in most proteins; a precursor of several hormones
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Tyrosin \Tyr"o*sin\, n. [Gr. ? cheese.] (Physiol. Chem.)
A white crystalline nitrogenous substance present in small
amount in the pancreas and spleen, and formed in large
quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various
means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of
cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it
consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by
decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol
derivative. [Written also {tyrosine}.]