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vanadium (medicine)


vanadium
<chemistry, element> A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties.

Atomic weight: 51.2

Abbreviation: V

Origin: NL, fr. Icel. Vanadis, a surname of the Scandinavian goddess Freya.


acid maltase (medicine)


acid maltase -->
exo-1,4-alpha-d-glucosidase


A hydrolase removing terminal alpha-1,4-linked d-glucose residues from nonreducing ends of chains, with release of beta-d-glucose.

Synonym: acid maltase, amyloglucosidase, gamma-amylase, glucoamylase.