Word.ws English Dictionary

glutathione peroxidase

glutathione peroxidase noun: the general name of an enzyme family with peroxidase activity whose main biological role is to protect the organism from oxidative damage.

Noun

glutathione peroxidase (uncountable)

  1. The general name of an enzyme family with peroxidase activity whose main biological role is to protect the organism from oxidative damage.
    Synonyms:
    GSHPX

Synonyms of glutathione peroxidase

Questions about glutathione peroxidase

What does glutathione peroxidase mean?
Glutathione peroxidase means the general name of an enzyme family with peroxidase activity whose main biological role is to protect the organism from oxidative damage.
What part of speech is glutathione peroxidase?
Glutathione peroxidase is a noun.

Words near glutathione peroxidase in the dictionary

  1. glutathiolation
  2. glutathiolations
  3. glutathionated
  4. glutathionation
  5. glutathione
  6. glutathione peroxidase
  7. glutathiones
  8. glutathionuria
  9. glutathionyl
  10. glutathionylate
  11. glutathionylated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glutathione peroxidase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “glutathione peroxidase.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/glutathione_peroxidase. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.