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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Polymerase.

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Particularly: “actually from German? or from English, with the ending transformed into a German-esque アーゼ suffix per existing borrowings? apparently polymerases were discovered in the 1950s”

Pronunciation

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  • (Tokyo) リメラーゼ [pòríméráꜜàzè] (Nakadaka – [4])
  • IPA(key): [po̞ɾʲime̞ɾa̠ːze̞]

Noun

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ポリメラーゼ (porimerāze

  1. (biology) polymerase
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