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say it: yur-uh-kuh-NAYZ
urokinase is a noun meaning "protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis". It carries one recorded sense.
protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for urokinase come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.