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COAGULASE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enzyme that induces coagulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("coagulase" is a kind of...):

enzyme (any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coagulase"):

thrombin (an enzyme that acts on fibrinogen in blood causing it to clot)

chymosin; rennin (an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate)

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 Context examples: 

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole positive, produce butyric acid and gas in peptone yeast extract medium with glucose, urease negative, and does not reduce nitrate, produce coagulase, hydrolyze esculin or starch, liquefy gelatin, ferment carbohydrates, or produce propionate from lactate.

(Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, indole, coagulase, and urease negative, produces gas from peptone-yeast-glucose medium, is moderately saccharolytic, but does not reduce nitrate, hydrolyze starch or esculin, produce propionate from lactate, or liquefy gelatin.

(Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole positive, catalase and urease negative, reduces nitrate, produces butyric acid, gas from peptone-yeast-glucose medium and propionate from lactate, coagulase and indole, and does not ferment carbohydrates or liquefy gelatin.

(Peptoniphilus indolicus, NCI Thesaurus)