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thyroperoxidase

thyroperoxidase

English

Noun

thyroperoxidase (countable and uncountable, plural thyroperoxidases)

  1. (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.