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detubulate

detubulate verb: to remove or disrupt a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).

Verb

detubulate (third-person singular simple present detubulates, present participle detubulating, simple past and past participle detubulated)

  1. To remove or disrupt a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).
    • Formamide-induced osmotic shock has been used to detubulate isolated adult rat ventricular myocytes (i.e., disrupt the surface membrane-T tubule junction).1999 August 1, Makoto Kawai, “Excitation-contraction coupling in rat ventricular myocytes after formamide-induced detubulation”, in Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Forms of detubulate

third-person singular presentdetubulates
present participledetubulating
past participledetubulated
pastdetubulated

Origin of detubulate

From de- + tubulate.

Questions about detubulate

What does detubulate mean?
Detubulate means to remove or disrupt a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).
What part of speech is detubulate?
Detubulate is a verb.
What is the past tense of detubulate?
The past tense of detubulate is detubulated.

Words near detubulate in the dictionary

  1. Dettmar
  2. Dettol
  3. detubularization
  4. detubularize
  5. detubularized
  6. detubulate
  7. detubulated
  8. detubulation
  9. detumble
  10. detumbled
  11. detumbles

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