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gloss(1) (iou) and squalene synthase (medicine)


gloss(1) (iou)



gloss noun1. M16.
[Refash. of GLOZE noun after medieval Latin glossa explanation of difficult word from Greek glossa word needing explanation (also tongue, language: cf. GLOSSO-).]
A word inserted between the lines or in the margin in order to explain a foreign or otherwise difficult word in a text; a similar explanation of a word in a glossary or dictionary. Also (more widely), a comment, an explanation, an interpretation, a paraphrase. M16.
J. Barzun Dewey..should be read in the original, not in his followers' gloss.
A collection of such words, a glossary. Also, an interlinear translation or series of annotations. L16.
A sophistical or disingenuous explanation; a misrepresentation of another's words. E17.
V. Glendinning Some of the stories..are..untrue, fantastic glosses on a genuinely appalling situation.
glossist noun a writer of glosses, a commentator M17.

squalene synthase (medicine)


squalene synthase
<enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the formation of squalene from two molecules of farnesylpyrophosphate using NADPH and concomitant production of two molecules of pyrophosphate.