Definitions for carnitine

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carnitine car·ni·tine

Spelling: [kahr-ni-teen]

IPA: /ˈkɑr nɪˌtin/

Carnitine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 351 anagrams from letters in carnitine (aceiinnrt).

Definitions for carnitine

noun

1. a dipolar compound that occurs in muscle and liver and is involved in the transport of fatty acids across the inner mitochondrial membrane.

Origin of carnitine

1920-25; German Carnitin, equivalent to Latin carni- (combining form of carō, genitive carnis meat, flesh) + -tin apparently arbitrarily chosen suffix (cf. -in²