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saga(2) (iou) and capZ (medicine)


saga(2) (iou)



saga noun2. E18.
[Old Norse (Icelandic) = SAW noun2.]
a. An Old Norse prose narrative of Iceland or Norway, esp. one which recounts the traditional history of Icelandic Families or of the kings of Norway. E18.
b. transf. A narrative regarded as having the traditional characteristics of the Icelandic sagas; a story of heroic achievement. Also, a novel or series of novels recounting the history of a family through several generations; loosely a long and complicated account of a series of events. M19.
E. Huxley The saga of their trek on foot..is a fantastic epic. Dance This singular saga of Dance history.
[Partly after German Sage.] A story which has been handed down by oral tradition and added to or adapted in the course of time; historical or heroic legend. M19.
George Eliot The old German saga of the Venusberg. R. W. Chambers How much of this is history, and how much saga, it is not easy to say.
Comb.: saga boy W. Indies a well-dressed lounger, a playboy; saga-man a narrator of sagas; the hero of a saga.

capZ (medicine)


capZ
<protein> Microfilament capping protein (32-36 kD) found in Dictyostelium and Acanthamoeba and that binds to the barbed ends of thin filaments in the Z disc of striated muscle. Widely distributed in vertebrate cells, though in nonmuscle cells is predominately in the nucleus. Identical to alpha actinin. Some isoforms may bind to the pointed ends of microfilaments.