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polyglutamine

polyglutamine adjective: involving more than one glutamine; (medicine) applied to a class of trinucleotide repeat disorder.

Adjective

polyglutamine (not comparable)

  1. Involving more than one glutamine; (medicine) applied to a class of trinucleotide repeat disorder.

Noun

polyglutamine (plural polyglutamines)

  1. A polymer of glutamine

Forms of polyglutamine

pluralpolyglutamines

Origin of polyglutamine

From poly- + glutamine.

Words formed from polyglutamine

  • polyglutamine disease
  • polyglutamine tract

Questions about polyglutamine

What does polyglutamine mean?
Polyglutamine means involving more than one glutamine; (medicine) applied to a class of trinucleotide repeat disorder.
What part of speech is polyglutamine?
Polyglutamine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near polyglutamine in the dictionary

  1. polyglutamated
  2. polyglutamates
  3. polyglutamation
  4. polyglutamations
  5. polyglutamic acid
  6. polyglutamine
  7. polyglutamines
  8. polyglutamyl
  9. polyglutamylase
  10. polyglutamylases
  11. polyglutamylate

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