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neuraminidase

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Particularly: “neuro- +‎ -amine +‎ -ide +‎ -ase

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neuraminidase (countable and uncountable, plural neuraminidases)

  1. (biochemistry) An antigenic enzyme, found on the surfaces of viruses, that catalyzes the hydrolysis of terminal acylneuraminic residues from oligosaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids.

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