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carbon-carbon lyases(medicine)

active carbon dioxide (medicine) and Irrational (medicine)


active carbon dioxide (medicine)


active carbon dioxide


Activated carbon dioxide, a complex of N-carboxybiotin (biotin + CO2) and an enzyme; the form in which carbon dioxide is added to Other molecules in carboxylations; e.g., to methylcrotonyl-CoA to form beta-methylglutaconyl in the catabolism of leucine, and to acetyl-CoA to form malonyl-CoA.

See: acetyl-CoA carboxylase.


Irrational (medicine)


irrational


1. Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.

2. Not according to reason; absurd; foolish. "It seemed utterly irrational any longer to maintain it." (I. Taylor)

3. <mathematics> Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; said especially of roots. See Surd.

Synonym: Absurd, foolish, preposterous, unreasonable, senseless. See Absurd.

Origin: L. Irrationalis: cf. F. Irrationnel. See In- not, and Rational.

Source: Websters Dictionary