Embden-Meyerhof pathway

/ (ˈɛmdənˈmaɪəˌhɒf) /

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noun

the metabolic reaction sequence in glycolysis by which glucose is converted to pyruvic acid with production of ATP

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Word Origin for Embden-Meyerhof pathway

C20: named after Gustav Embden (1874–1933) and Otto Meyerhof (1884–1951), German biochemists

Words nearby Embden-Meyerhof pathway

embattled, embattlement, embay, embayment, Embden, Embden-Meyerhof pathway, embed, embedded microchips, embedding, embelin, embellish

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Will had mistakenly connected the pathway of infection in a hospital room with someone coughing or sneezing circulating in public.
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Every year 14,000 vessels serve 1,7000 ports in 160 countries as they make their way through this Atlantic-to-Pacific pathway.
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The pathway that RB is involved in is altered in 70 percent of human cancers—especially cancers in the brain.
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The pathway to a powerful judgeship is more circuitous than to a State House or Congress.
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The more you do something, the more available that pathway is, so you may be able to use your brain resources more effectively.
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Only the petrol tins they took for water right and left of their pathway up the cliff; huge diamonds in the evening sun.
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The fresh imprint of a tiger's paw upon the pathway gives the same sort of feel to the Indian herdsman.
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Crossing the heath, her pathway lay near the spot where she had been found, clinging to the bosom of her dead mother.
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The pathway led through a door in the great gateway, over which still hangs suspended the iron port-cullis.
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Heaven's pathway stands unobstructed, which will lead us into a Paradise of bliss.
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