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presenilin

noun

Etymology

From presenile + -in, since they were first identified in screens for mutations causing early onset forms of familial Alzheimer's disease.

  1. derived from *sénos✻
  2. derived from senīlis
  3. derived from senile
  4. derived from senile
  5. borrowed from sénile
  6. prefixed as presenile — “pre + senile”
  7. suffixed as presenilin — “presenile + in”

Definitions

  1. Any of a class of transmembrane proteins

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for presenilin. 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