PORCINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porcine mean? 

• PORCINE (adjective)
  The adjective PORCINE has 3 senses:

1. relating to or suggesting swine

2. repellently fat

3. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy

  Familiarity information: PORCINE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORCINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or suggesting swine

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

comparison between human and porcine pleasures

Pertainym:

swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Repellently fat

Synonyms:

gross; porcine

Context example:

a bald porcine old man

Similar:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy

Synonyms:

hoggish; piggish; piggy; porcine; swinish

Context example:

swinish slavering over food

Similar:

gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)

 Context examples 

This type of insulin may be derived from porcine or recombinant sources.

(Insulin, Lente, NCI Thesaurus)

Administered once daily, this type of insulin may be derived from porcine, bovine, or recombinant sources.

(Insulin, Ultralente, NCI Thesaurus)

A low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) composed of a heterogeneous mixture of sulfated polysaccharide glycosaminoglycan chains obtained by depolymerisation of porcine mucosal sodium heparin, extraction/purification and conversion to the calcium salt.

(Nadroparin Calcium, NCI Thesaurus)

The sodium salt form of danaparoid, a synthetic low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) derived from porcine gut mucosa with anticoagulant activity.

(Danaparoid Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

That prompted them to create a first-of-its-kind platform mimicking hallmarks of early porcine CAVD in a lab dish.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Derived, after depolymerisation and fractionation, from medical-grade porcine unfractionated heparin (UFH), bemiparin has an average molecular weight of 3,600 daltons and has a higher anti-factor Xa/anti-factor IIa ratio (8:1) than first-generation LMWHs.

(Bemiparin Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)