n :  an amino acid C₄H₉NO₂S that is produced in animal metabolism by the demethylation of methionine and forms a complex with serine that breaks up to produce cysteine and homoserine .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  ho·mo·cys·tine 
 
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