essential amino acid

English

Noun

essential amino acid (plural essential amino acids)

1. (biochemistry) One of the nine naturally occurring amino acids that the human body cannot synthesize, and so must be provided by dietary protein.

   Antonym: nonessential amino acid

   Hyponyms: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, valine

Hyponyms

• phenylalanine
• valine
• threonine
• tryptophan
• methionine
• leucine
• isoleucine
• lysine
• histidine

Translations

amino acid which is a dietry requirement

• Catalan: aminoàcid essencial m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 必需氨基酸 (bit¹ seoi¹ on¹ gei¹ syun¹)

  Hokkien: 必需氨基酸 (pì-su an-ki-sng)

  Mandarin: 必需氨基酸 (bìxū ānjīsuān)

• Czech: esenciální aminokyselina f
• Finnish: välttämätön aminohappo
• Galician: aminoácido esencial m
• German: essentielle Aminosäure f
• Hungarian: esszenciális aminosav
• Italian: amminoacido essenziale m
• Japanese: 必須アミノ酸 (ja) (ひっすアミノさん, hissu amino-san), 不可欠アミノ酸 (ふかけつアミノさん, fukaketsu amino-san)
• Korean: 필수 아미노산 (pilsu aminosan), 불가결 아미노산 (bulgagyeol aminosan)
• Polish: aminokwas egzogenny (pl) m
• Portuguese: aminoácido essencial m
• Russian: незамени́мая аминокислота́ (ru) f (nezamenímaja aminokislotá)
• Slovak: esenciálna aminokyselina
• Spanish: aminoácido esencial m

Further reading

• essential amino acid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia