Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A white crystalline substance, prepared by reducing diiodopurin with zinc-dust.
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Examples
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-- The term purin has been applied to all bodies containing the nucleus C_ {5} N_ {4}.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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We now know that white meats of all sorts are quite as rich in those elements known as the purin bodies, or uric-acid group, as red meats, and many of them much richer.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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July 31, 2009 at 7:41 am luks mor lik teh kitteh iz grolin ten purin teh mi
makin a purrito - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Himz purreded n purreded (himz nawt a purin kinda kitteh…) letted me brus himz fur (he hatezez dat) n gib himz bowl ub milk … himz kept purrin n purrin den himz curlz up on da gascats hed n goez nit nit.
Y dis ladder scream? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And I LOOOOOOOOOVED that purin custard in my shaved ice!
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Dr. Hall has made a large number of personal experiments, and says that when he has taken large doses of purin bodies -- such as 7 grains of hypoxanthin, 15 to
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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A portion of the purins remain undigested, the quantity depending upon the particular purin and the vigour of the digestive organs.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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Yeast extracts contain purin bodies, and are probably equally as injurious as meat extracts.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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There are special chapters on the metabolism of diabetes and fever, and on purin metabolism.
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The first column of figures indicates purin bodies in parts per 1,000, the second column purin bodies in grains per pound: --
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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