| purified cotton | Absorbent cotton in which the hairs of the seed of varieties of Gossypium and other allied species are freed from adhering impurities, deprived of fatty matter, bleached, and sterilised; used for tampons, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| purified ozokerite | A natural mixture of hydrocarbons of high molecular weight; a substitute for beeswax, also used in dentistry for impressions. Synonym: cerin, cerosin, earth wax, mineral wax, purified ozokerite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| purified placental protein | human placental lactogen |
| purified protein derivative of tuberculin | Purified tuberculin containing the active protein fraction; the tuberculin from which it is prepared differs from tuberculin chiefly in that the bacteria are grown in a synthetic rather than in a broth medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| purified water | Water obtained by distillation or deionization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| puriform | <medicine> In the form of pus. Origin: L. Pus, puris, pus: cf. F. Puriforme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| purify | 1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart. "And fit them so Purified to receive him pure." (Milton) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement. "And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . And purified the altar." (Lev. Viii. 15) "Purify both yourselves and your captives." (Num. Xxxi. 19) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. Origin: F.purifier, L. Purificare; purus pure + -ficare (in comp) to make. See Pure, and -fy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| purinaemia | The presence of purine or xanthine bases in the circulating blood. Origin: purine + G. Haima, blood (05 Mar 2000) |
| purine | <biochemistry, molecular biology> A heterocyclic compound with a fused pyrimidine/imidazole ring. Planar and aromatic in character. The parent compound for the purine bases of nucleic acids. (18 Nov 1997) |
| purine 5'-nucleotidase | <enzyme> Associated with some immunologic deficiency diseases Registry number: EC 3.1.3.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| purine base | A purine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| purine imidazole-ring cyclase | <enzyme> Recyclises ring-opened purine formamidopyrimidines in irradiated DNA, restoring the c-8 to n-9 band, does not require ATP Registry number: EC 6.3.3.- Synonym: purir cyclase (26 Jun 1999) |
| purine permease | <chemical> Enzyme in transport system of purines in yeast pichia guillermondii Chemical name: permease, purine (26 Jun 1999) |
| purine phosphoribosyltransferase | <enzyme> Specific purine phosphoribosyltransferases are EC 2.4.2.7 and 2.4.2.8. Registry number: EC 2.4.2.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| purine ribonucleoside | A toxic nucleoside isolated from the mushroom Agaricus nebularis and from Streptomyces sp. Synonym: 9-beta-ribofuranosylpurine, purine ribonucleoside, ribosylpurine. (05 Mar 2000) |