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Muramidase

Definition: Muramidase

Muramidase

Noun

1. An enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria.

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Specialty Definition: Muramidase

DomainDefinition

Health

A basic enzyme that is present in saliva, tears, egg white, and many animal fluids. It functions as an antibacterial agent. The enzyme catalyzes the hydrolysis of 1,4-beta-linkages between N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues in peptidoglycan and between N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues in chitodextrin. EC 3.2.1.17. (references)

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Synonym: Muramidase

Synonym: lysozyme (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Muramidase

Language Translations for "muramidase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

serummuramidase (serum muramidase). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

serum muramidase (serum muramidase). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

seerumin muramidaasi (serum muramidase). (various references)

   

French

  

lysozyme sérique (serum muramidase). (various references)

   

German

  

Serum Muramidase (serum muramidase). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μουραμιδάση του ορού (serum muramidase). (various references)

   

Italian

  

muramidasi serica (serum muramidase). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uramidasemay

   

Portuguese

  

muramidase sérica (serum muramidase). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

muramidasa sérica (serum muramidase). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

serummuramidas (serum muramidase). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Muramidase

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-m-m-r-s-u"

-2 letters: madeiras, mermaids, samarium, uraemias.

-3 letters: admires, amidase, aramids, dammars, dammers, dimmers, dummies, immured, immures, madames, madeira, maimers, marauds, mediums, mermaid, mismade, misread, radiums, remudas, residua, rummies, samurai, sedarim, sidearm, sudaria, uraemia, uremias.

-4 letters: adieus, admire, aiders, aimers, amides, amused, amuser, amusia, aramid, armies, asarum, damars, dammar, dammer, deairs, demurs, dermas, dermis, dimers, dimmer.

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Alternative Orthography: Muramidase


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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