Enzyme

Noun

 * 1)  A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction.

Thesaurus
digestant, digester, digestive, esterase, holoenzyme, insulinase, lipase, lipoxidase, pepsin, polynucleotidase, protease, proteolytic enzyme, ribonuclease, saccharase, saccharifying enzyme, beta-amylase, carbohydrase, coenzyme, deoxyribonuclease,

Etymology
From Enzym:, created in 1878, by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne from  ἐν: and ζύμη:.

Derived terms

 * adaptive enzyme
 * apoenzyme
 * coenzyme


 * haloenzyme
 * holoenzyme
 * ribozyme

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ensiem
 * Arabic: انزيم
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: enzim
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ένζυμο


 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Einsím
 * Japanese: 酵素
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, энзим
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1)  enzyme