Definitions for creatine

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creatine cre·a·tine

Spelling: [kree-uh-teen, -tin]

IPA: /ˈkri əˌtin, -tɪn/

Creatine is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 356 anagrams from letters in creatine (aceeinrt).

Definitions for creatine

noun

1. an amino acid, C 4 H 9 N 3 O 2 , that is a constituent of the muscles of vertebrates and is phosphorylated to store energy used for muscular contraction.

Origin of creatine

1830-40; creat- (Greek kreat-, stem of kréas) flesh + -ine²

Examples for creatine

creatine and creatinine also seem to lessen in amount, but of the extent of this change I am not as yet fully informed.

In vertebrates, the basis for the phosphoric acid is creatine, whereas invertebrates have arginine instead.