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pleckstrin (medicine)


pleckstrin
<protein> The major PKC substrate in platelets, a protein of 47 kD. Pleckstrin homology (PH) Domains are being identified in a number of proteins and seem to be associated with the interaction with heterotrimeric G-proteins.


hepatise (medicine)


hepatise


1. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas. "On the right . . where two wells of hepatized water." (Barrow)

2. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.

Origin: Gr. To be like the liver, to be liver-coloured, fr, the liver: cf. E. Hepatite, and (for sense 2) F. Hepatiser.

Source: Websters Dictionary