n :  a white crystalline nitrogenous substance C₄H₉N₃O₂ found esp. in vertebrate muscle either free or as phosphocreatine .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  car·o·tene  cor·tin  cre·tin  cro·tin 
 
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