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glutamate(dictionary)
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gamma-glutamate (glutamate gamma-) carboxypeptidase (medicine) and assonance (iou)


gamma-glutamate (glutamate gamma-) carboxypeptidase (medicine)


gamma-glutamate (glutamate gamma-) carboxypeptidase -->
gamma-glutamyl hydrolase


N-Pteroyl-l-glutamate hydrolase;an enzyme cleaving l-glutamyl residues from pteridine oligoglutamates; used in certain antitumour treatments.

Synonym: carboxypeptidase G, conjugase, gamma-glutamate (glutamate gamma-) carboxypeptidase.


assonance (iou)



assonance noun. E18.
[French, from Latin assonare respond to, from ad AS-1 + sonare, from sonus sound: see -ANCE.]
1. Resemblance or correspondence of sound between two syllables. E18.
2. The rhyming of one word with another in accented vowel and those that follow, but not in consonants, or (less usually) in consonants but not in vowels. E19.
3. transf. Correspondence more or less incomplete. M19.
assonant adjective & noun (a) adjective exhibiting assonance; (b) noun in pl., words exhibiting assonance: E18.
assonantal adjective of or pertaining to assonance, exhibiting assonance M19.