See Also: electron transport particles(medicine)
electron transport(medicine)
electron transport chain(medicine)
electron transport phosphorylation(medicine)
electron transport system(medicine)
reverse electron transport(medicine)
kappa particles(medicine)
alpha particles(medicine)
submitochondrial particles(medicine)
chromatin particles(medicine)

prescriptive (iou) and electron transport particles (medicine)


prescriptive (iou)



prescriptive adjective. M18.
[Late Latin praescriptivus pertaining to a legal exception or demurrer, from Latin praescript-: see PRESCRIPTION, -IVE.]
That prescribes or directs; giving definite precise directions or instructions. M18.
b. Linguistics. Laying down rules of usage. M20.
c. Philosophy. Having or implying an imperative force. M20.
Law. Of a right, title, etc.: derived from or based on prescription or lapse of time. M18.
Prescribed by long-standing custom or usage. M18.
R. C. Hutchinson For her own mother..she had felt no more than a prescriptive affection. N. Algren The prescriptive rights of master over men.
Anthropology. Pertaining to or designating Marriage traditionally considered obligatory between certain people in a tribe or kinship group. M20.
prescriptively adverb L18.
prescriptiveness noun E19.
prescriptivism noun (a) Linguistics the practice or advocacy of prescriptive grammar; (b) Philosophy the theory that evaluative judgements have prescriptive force like to that of imperatives: M20.
prescriptivist noun & adjective (a) noun an adherent of prescriptivism; (b) adjective pertaining to or characteristic of prescriptivism: M20.
prescrip'tivity noun prescriptiveness M20.

electron transport particles (medicine)


electron transport particles
<cell biology> Fragments of mitochondria still capable of transporting electrons.

One of the units occurring on the matrical surface of mitochondrial cristae; the head of the particle which measures about 9 nm, attaches to the membrane of the crista by a stalk 5 nm in length; the particle may be concerned with the electron transport system.

Synonym: submitochondrial particles.