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inflammasome

noun

Etymology

From inflammatory + -some.

  1. inherited from inflammen
  2. formed as inflammatory — “inflame + -atory”
  3. suffixed as inflammasome — “inflammatory + some”

Definitions

  1. A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via…

    A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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