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thyroperoxidase
thyroperoxidase
English
Noun
thyroperoxidase (countable and uncountable, plural thyroperoxidases)
- (biochemistry) An enzyme, expressed mainly in the thyroid, that liberates iodine for addition onto tyrosine residues on thyroglobulin for the production of thyroxine or triiodothyronine.