cyclic GMP

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noun Biochemistry.

a cyclic anhydride of guanosine monophosphate formed from guanosine triphosphate by the action of guanylate cyclase: in cellular metabolism, it acts as a second messenger associated with increased cell division and growth.

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Also called cGMP, guanosine cyclic monophosphate, guanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate.

Origin of cyclic GMP

First recorded in 1970–75

Words nearby cyclic GMP

cyclic, cyclical, cyclical unemployment, cyclic AMP, cyclic compound, cyclic GMP, cyclic guanosine monophosphate, cyclic neutropenia, cyclicotomy, cyclic pitch lever, cyclic shift

How to use cyclic GMP in a sentence

The difficulty is the greater if the Cyclic poems were long poems, with one author to each Epic.
Homer and His Age|Andrew Lang
It is in the Cyclic poems that we should naturally seek for materials to enlarge, expound, or correct Homer.
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3|W. E. Gladstone
Heyne holds even the commencement of the Cyclic poems to have been at least a century after the date of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3|W. E. Gladstone
In the mountains precipitation is heavier and somewhat more evenly distributed throughout the year, but still definitely cyclic.
The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacn, Mxico|William E. Duellman

The selenium atom in a cyclic compound also acts like an auxochrome.
Synthesis of 2-methyl-4-selenoquinazolone, 2-phenylbenzoselenazole, and its derivatives|Y-Gwan Chen

Medical definitions for cyclic GMP

cyclic GMP

Cyclic guanosine monophosphate; a cyclic nucleotide of guanosine that acts at the cellular level as a regulator of various metabolic processes, possibly as an antagonist to cyclic AMP.