activase
/ˈaktɪveɪz/Biochemistry
noun
1An enzyme that activates another substance, especially an inactive enzyme.
2With capital initial. A trademark for: the plasminogen activator alteplase.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Chemical Abstracts. From activ- + -ase, after German Aktivase.
- nephrectomized
- nephrectomy
- nephric
- nephridial
- nephridiopore
- nephridiostome
- nephridium
- nephrite
- nephritic
- nephritic stone
- nephritic wood
- nephritis
- nephritogenic
- nephro-
- nephroblast
- nephroblastoma
- nephrocalcinosis
- nephrocolic
- nephrocyte
- nephrogastric
- nephrogenic
- nephrogram
- nephrographic
- nephrography
- nephrolithiasis