| kin- | Kine- Movement, motion. See: cine-. Origin: G. Kinesis (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Kin28 protein kinase | <enzyme> A cyclin-dependent protein serine-threonine kinase from saccharomyces cerevisiae Registry number: EC 2.7.10.- Synonym: kin28 gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| kinaesodic | <physiology> Kinesodic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kinaesthesis | <physiology> The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. To move + perception. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kinanesthesia | A disturbance of deep sensibility in which there is inability to perceive either direction or extent of movement, the result being ataxia. Synonym: cinanesthesia. Origin: G. Kinesis, motion, + an-priv. + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinase | <enzyme, molecular biology> Widely used abbreviation for phosphokinase, an enzyme catalysing transfer of phosphate from ATP to a second substrate usually specified in less abbreviated name, for example creatine phosphokinase (creatine kinase), protein kinase. Serine / threonine kinases phosphorylate on serine or threonine residues, tyrosine kinases on tyrosines. (18 Nov 1997) |
| kinase II | <enzyme> A hydrolase cleaving C-terminal dipeptides from a variety of substrates, including angiotensin I, which is converted to angiotensin II and histidylleucine. An important step in the metabolism of certain vasopressor agents. It is a chloride-dependent, zinc glycoprotein that is generally membrane-bound and active at neutral pH. Only single dipeptides are released from angiotensin I and bradykinin because of the lack of activity on bonds involving proline. It may also have endopeptidase activity on some substrates. Registry number: EC 3.4.15.1 Synonym: carboxycathepsin, dipeptidyl carboxypeptidase, kinase II, peptidase P. (22 Sep 2002) |
| kinase-splitting membranal proteinase | <enzyme> Brush-border membrane proteinase; specifically clips the native form of the catalytic subunit of camp-dependent protein kinase Registry number: EC 3.4.99.- Synonym: ksm proteinase (26 Jun 1999) |
| kinate | <chemistry> See Quinate. Origin: Cf. F. Kinate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kind | 1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. "He knew by kind and by no other lore." (Chaucer) "Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature." (Dryden) 2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. "Come of so low a kind." "Every kind of beasts, and of birds." (James III.7) "She follows the law of her kind." (Wordsworth) "Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed." (Emerson) 3. Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. "How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds !" (Spenser) "There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds." (I Cor. Xv. 39) "Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers ?" (Bacon) A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; said loosely or slightingly. In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money. "Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn." (Arbuthnot) Synonym: Sort, species, class, genus, nature, style, character, breed, set. Origin: OE. Kinde, cunde, AS. Cynd. See Kind. 1. Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. "It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste." (Holland) 2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart. "Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault." (Goldsmith) 3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious. "He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil." (Luke vi 35) "O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind." (Waller) "A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind." (Garrick) 4. Proceeding from, or characterised by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. "Manners so kind, yet stately." 5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness. Synonym: Benevolent, benign, beneficent, bounteous, gracious, propitious, generous, forbearing, indulgent, tender, humane, compassionate, good, lenient, clement, mild, gentle, bland, obliging, friendly, amicable. See Obliging. Origin: AS. Cynde, gecynde, natural, innate, prop. An old p. P. From the root of E. Kin. See Kin kindred. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kind-hearted | Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterised by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. "To thy self at least kind-hearted prove." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kind-heartedness | The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kindle | 1. To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings. "His breath kindleth coals." (Job xii. 21) 2. To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame. "So is a contentious man to kindle strife." (Prov. Xxvi. 21) "Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither." (Shak) "Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." (Milton) "Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire." (Dryden) Synonym: Enkindle, light, ignite, inflame, provoke, excite, arouse, stir up. Origin: Icel. Kyndill candle, torch; prob. Fr. L. Candela; cf. Also Icel. Kynda to kindle. Cf. Candle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kindling | <neurology> A phenomenon in which there is a relatively profound alteration in brain function resulting from repeated electrical or chemical stimulation and culminating in the appearance of electrographic and behavioural convulsions whenever the stimulus is re-applied. It is used as an experimental model for epilepsy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| kindly | 1. According to the kind or nature; natural. "The kindly fruits of the earth." (Book of Com. Prayer) "An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting." (Spenser) "Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men." (L. Andrews) 2. Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc. "The shade by which my life was crossed, . . . Has made me kindly with my kind." (Tennyson) 3. Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent. "In soft silence shed the kindly shower." (Pope) "Should e'er a kindlier time ensue." (Wordsworth) "Nothing ethical was connoted in kindly once: it was simply the adjective of kind. But it is God's ordinance that kind should be kindly, in our modern sense of the word as well; and thus the word has attained this meaning." Origin: AS. Cyndelic. See Kind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |