CREATINE PHOSPHATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creatine phosphate mean? 

• CREATINE PHOSPHATE (noun)
  The noun CREATINE PHOSPHATE has 1 sense:

1. an organic compound of creatine and phosphoric acid; found in the muscles of vertebrates where its hydrolysis releases energy for muscular contraction

  Familiarity information: CREATINE PHOSPHATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREATINE PHOSPHATE (noun)

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Meaning:

An organic compound of creatine and phosphoric acid; found in the muscles of vertebrates where its hydrolysis releases energy for muscular contraction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

creatine phosphate; creatine phosphoric acid; phosphocreatine

Hypernyms ("creatine phosphate" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

 Context examples 

After intense effort, when ATP deposits are depleted, creatine phosphate donates phosphate groups toward the fast synthesis of ATP.

(Creatine Monohydrate, NCI Thesaurus)

Creatine is important for energy storage; it is phosphorylated to creatine phosphate, which serves as a phosphate donor in the conversion of ADP to ATP and supplies energy necessary for muscle contraction.

(Creatine, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes creatine kinase B-type protein, is involved in the reversible transfer of phosphate between ATP and phoshphogens wherein creatine phosphate is the primary substrate.

(CKB wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)