English-Portuguese translations for amino acid

• aminoácido
  Nos complementos alimentares usam-se também extractos de plantas, aminoácidos e ácidos gordos essenciais. Herbal extracts, amino acids, and essential fatty acids are used in food supplements too.
  Trata-se das vítimas de uma doença hereditária, a fenilcetonúria, que sofrem de incapacidade de metabolizar o aminoácido fenilalanina. They are the sufferers of the inherited disease PKU, who are unable to metabolise the amino acid phenylaline.

Definition of amino acid

• Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group

Related words

• α-amino acid
• gamma-aminobutyric acid
• alpha-amino acid
• polyaminopolycarboxylic acid
• aminobenzoic acid
• aminosalicylic acid
• aminocaproic acid
• aminolevulinic acid
• para-Aminobenzoic acid