| fuchsinophil | 1. Staining readily with fuchsin dyes. Synonym: fuchsinophilic. 2. A cell or histologic element that stains readily with fuchsin. Origin: fuchsin + G. Philos, fond (05 Mar 2000) |
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| fuchsinophil cell | A cell with a special affinity for fuchsin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fuchsinophil granule | A granule that has an affinity for fuchsin. Synonym: Altmann's granule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fuchsinophil reaction | The property possessed by certain elements, when stained with acid fuchsin, of retaining the stain when treated with picric acid alcohol. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fuchsinophilia | The property of staining readily with fuchsin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fuchsinophilic | 1. Staining readily with fuchsin dyes. Synonym: fuchsinophilic. 2. A cell or histologic element that stains readily with fuchsin. Origin: fuchsin + G. Philos, fond (05 Mar 2000) |
| fucivorous | <zoology> Eating fucus or other seaweeds. Origin: Fucus + L. Vorare to eat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fucoid | <botany> Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in colour, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character. In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds. Origin: Fucus. <botany> A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fucoidal | 1. <botany> Fucoid. 2. <geology> Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fucose | <biochemistry> L fucose (6 deoxy L galactose) is found as a constituent of N glycan chains of glycoproteins, it is the only common L form of sugar involved. D fucose is usually encountered as a synthetic galactose analogue. (18 Nov 1997) |
| fucosidase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of an alpha l-fucoside to yield an alcohol and l-fucose. Deficiency of this enzyme can cause alpha-fucosidosis. Chemical name: alpha-L-Fucoside fucohydrolase Registry number: EC 3.2.1.51 (12 Dec 1998) |
| fucosidosis | An autosomally recessive inherited metabolic disorder in which deficiency of alpha-1-fucosidase activity results in accumulation of fucose-containing sphingolipids, glycoproteins, and mucopolysaccharides in lysosomes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fucosterol epoxide lyase | <enzyme> Insect enzyme converts fucosterol epoxide to desmosterol plus (presumably) acetaldehyde Registry number: EC 4.1.2.- Synonym: fucosterol 24,28-epoxide lyase (26 Jun 1999) |
| fucosyl galactose alpha-n-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the transfer of acetylgalactosamine from udp n-acetylgalactosamine to various 2-fucosylgalactosides as acceptors. Chemical name: UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine:alpha-L-fucosyl-(1,2)-D-galactose 3-N-acetyl-D-galactosaminyltransferase Registry number: EC 2.4.1.40 (12 Dec 1998) |
| fucosyl transferase | <enzyme> An enzyme catalysing the transfer of fucosyl residues from the nucleotide sugar GDP fucose. (18 Nov 1997) |