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cystatine

cystatine is the alternative form of cystatin.

Meaning of cystatin

Noun

cystatin (plural cystatins)

  1. Any of a group of polypeptides that are cysteine protease inhibitors

Forms of cystatine

pluralcystatines

Questions about cystatine

What is cystatine the alternative form of?
Cystatine is the alternative form of cystatin.

Words near cystatine in the dictionary

  1. cystathionin
  2. cystathioninase
  3. cystathionine
  4. cystathioninuria
  5. cystatin
  6. cystatine
  7. cystatines
  8. cystatins
  9. cysteamine
  10. cysteamines
  11. cystectomies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cystatine (page history and authors); cystatin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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