Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Apolipoprotein.

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  • adjective biochemistry, of a protein In an inactive, unbound state

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Examples

  • [4] The initial portion of some of these names is derived from the respectful term apo -- "sir," and the attributive copulate ni; thus the original form of Aponitolau probably was Apo ni Tolau, literally

    A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore Fay-Cooper Cole 1921

  • He had a gene called apo E4, which is a high-risk gene for Alzheimer's disease (ii) and also made it hard for him to lower his cholesterol and detoxify mercury from his brain. (iii) He also had a version of a gene for detoxification of metals and other toxins (glutathione-S-transferase, or GST) (iv) that was very inefficient, making him accumulate more toxins over his lifetime.

    Mark Hyman, MD: 9 Steps to Reverse Dementia and Memory Loss As You Age 2010

  • He had a gene called apo E4, which is a high-risk gene for Alzheimer's disease (ii) and also made it hard for him to lower his cholesterol and detoxify mercury from his brain. (iii) He also had a version of a gene for detoxification of metals and other toxins (glutathione-S-transferase, or GST) (iv) that was very inefficient, making him accumulate more toxins over his lifetime.

    Mark Hyman, MD: 9 Steps to Reverse Dementia and Memory Loss As You Age 2010

  • II., as well as the words of Clemens Alex. in the work Quis Dives Salvandus, n. 8, in which the Son is described as apo geneseos mechri tou semeiou ten anthropoteta diatrechon.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Eros (with an epsilon) is the same word as eros (with an eta): 'the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;' or perhaps they were a species of sophists or rhetoricians, and so called apo tou erotan, or eirein, from their habit of spinning questions; for eirein is equivalent to legein.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • Ouranos is so called apo tou oran ta ano, which, as some philosophers say, is the way to have a pure mind; the sophists are by a fanciful explanation converted into heroes; 'the givers of names were like some philosophers who fancy that the earth goes round because their heads are always going round.'

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • Meis is so called apo tou meiousthai, from suffering diminution, and astron is from astrape

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • My daughter, who at 14, has far more spark and enthusiasm than I do, was diagnosed as chronic depressive and prescribed a drug called apo-proxetine.

    CAMBRIDGETIMES - Home 2009

  • If you have a gene called apo E4, found in about 25 percent of the population, you are 2.5 to 5 times more likely to get Alzheimer’s.

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

  • He had a gene called apo E4, which is a high-risk gene for Alzheimer’s disease,3 one that also made it hard for him to lower his cholesterol or detoxify mercury from his brain.

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

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