enterokinase

1. 1.

   enzyme in the intestinal juice that converts inactive trypsinogen into active trypsin

   Broaderenzyme

Other forms of enterokinase

plural

enterokinases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enterokinase

What does enterokinase mean?

enterokinase means "enzyme in the intestinal juice that converts inactive trypsinogen into active trypsin".

How many syllables are in enterokinase?

enterokinase has 5 syllables: en-te-ro-ki-nase. The stress falls on "ro".

Is enterokinase a common word?

enterokinase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.