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Origin and history of histidine

histidine(n.)

complex amino acid essential to the synthesis of proteins, 1896, from German histidin (by 1889); see histo-, in medical use in reference to the "web" of animal tissue structure, + chemical suffix -idine (see -ide + -ine (2)).

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1913, amine produced by the decomposition of histidine; also see histo-.

medical word-forming element, from Greek histos "warp, web," literally "anything set upright," from histasthai "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm." Taken by 19c. medical writers as the best Greek root from which to form terminology for "tissue, structural element of the animal body."

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