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Prostaglandin vs Null - What's the difference?

prostaglandin | null |

As nouns the difference between prostaglandin and null

is that prostaglandin is (biochemistry) any of a group of naturally occurring lipids derived from the c20 acid prostanoic acid; they have a number of physiological functions and may be considered to be hormones while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

prostaglandin

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biochemistry) Any of a group of naturally occurring lipids derived from the C20 acid prostanoic acid; they have a number of physiological functions and may be considered to be hormones.
  • * 2001 , Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001), page 51:
  • This enzyme generates an inflammatory mediator known as prostaglandin , which triggers pain and other aspects of inflammation.

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----