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butchery (medicine)


butchery


1. The business of a butcher.

2. Murder or manslaughter, especially. When committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. "The perpetration of human butchery." (Prescott)

3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. "Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery." (Fabyan)

Synonym: Murder, slaughter, carnage. See Massacre.

Origin: OE. Bocherie shambles, fr. F. Boucherie. See Butcher.

Source: Websters Dictionary


oxidoreduction (iou)



oxidoreduction noun. M20.
[from OXID(ATION + -O- + REDUCTION.]
Biochemistry. A process in which one substance is oxidized and electrons from it reduce another substance.
oxidoreductase noun an enzyme which catalyses oxidoreduction E20.
oxidoreductive adjective involving oxidoreduction M20.