English Explanatory Dictionary

orcokinin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a family of crustacean peptides that elicit potent myotropic effects in gut tissues

Word forms

orcokinin orcokinins

Etymology

From Orconectes limosus ("a species of crayfish") and kinin.

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