cursory (iou) and dehydratase (medicine)

cursory (iou)

cursory adjective. E17.
[Latin cursorius, formed as CURSOR: see -ORY2.]
Passing rapidly over a thing or subject; hasty, hurried; superficial. E17.
T. Hardy Since he could not call at her father's..cursory encounters..were what the acquaintance would have to feed on. E. F. Benson The whole place, as could be seen at the most cursory glance, had been laid out with skill and care.
Travelling. rare. E-M17.
Hist. Designating informal lectures at medieval universities given, esp. by bachelors, in addition to the prescribed lectures by authorized teachers. M19.
cursorily adverb hastily, superficially E17.
cursoriness noun E18.

dehydratase (medicine)

dehydratase

A subclass (EC 4.2.1) of lyases (hydro-lyases) that remove H and OH as H2O from a substrate, leaving a double bond, or add a group to a double bond by the elimination of water from two substances to form a third; synthase is sometimes used when the synthetic aspect of the reaction is emphasized. Some trivial names of enzymes in this subclass bear the generic term hydratase, emphasizing the reverse reaction.

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