tricarboxylic acid cycle

Questions about tricarboxylic acid cycle

What does tricarboxylic acid cycle mean?

tricarboxylic acid cycle means "in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy".

What is another word for tricarboxylic acid cycle?

Close synonyms include Krebs cycle, Krebs citric acid cycle, citric acid cycle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tricarboxylic acid cycle a common word?

tricarboxylic acid cycle 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.