Taurine

[Tau·rine]

Use the adjective taurine to describe someone or something that resembles a bull, like a big, broad dog lumbering through the dog park.

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Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.

Noun
a colorless crystalline substance obtained from the bile of mammals

Adjective
of or relating to or resembling a bull


a.
Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.

n.
A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C2H7NSO3.


Taurine

Tau"rine , a. [L. taurinus, fr. taurus a bull. See Taurus.] (Zo'94l.) Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.

Taurine

Tau"rine , n. [So named because it was discovered in the bile of the ox. See Taurus.] (Physiol. Chem.) A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, CHNSO.

Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.

A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, CHNSO.

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