Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cephalosporinase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cephalospori-nase
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any enzyme that hydrolyses (the lactam ring of a ) cephalosporin

Example Sentences

"Resistance to β-lactams is mainly due to enzymatic degradation by a chromosomal cephalosporinase, plasmid-mediated broad spectrum β-lactamases, and recently acquired carbapenemases [4, 6, 7, 9 –14 ]."

Etymology

From cephalosporin + -ase.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cephalosporin

Inflected Forms

cephalosporinases (plural)

Questions

What does cephalosporinase mean?: Any enzyme that hydrolyses (the lactam ring of a ) cephalosporin
Where does cephalosporinase come from?: From cephalosporin + -ase.

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