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spastin

noun

Etymology

From spastic + -in.

  1. derived from σπαστικός — “drawing in”
  2. learned borrowing from spasticus
  3. suffixed as spastin — “spastic + in”

Definitions

  1. A protein, related to katanin, mutations of which lead to spastic paraplegia

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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