coagulase

noun

Etymology

Blend of coagulation + -ase.

Definitions

  1. Any enzyme that induces coagulation.

  2. Specifically, the enzyme produced by various Staphylococcus species that converts…

    Specifically, the enzyme produced by various Staphylococcus species that converts fibrinogen to fibrin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coagulase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA