thiamine pyrophosphate

1. 1.

   a coenzyme important in respiration in the Krebs cycle

   Synonymscocarboxylase

   Broadercoenzyme

Questions about thiamine pyrophosphate

What does thiamine pyrophosphate mean?

thiamine pyrophosphate means "a coenzyme important in respiration in the Krebs cycle".

What is another word for thiamine pyrophosphate?

Close synonyms include cocarboxylase. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thiamine pyrophosphate a common word?

thiamine pyrophosphate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.