oxydase Chem.
(ˈɒksɪdeɪs)
[mod. f. oxyd, oxide + -ase (ad. Gr. -ασις) in names of ferments, as diastase.]
A former variant spelling of oxidase.
| 1896 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LXX. ii. 571 The author gives the generic term oxydase to laicase, tyrosinase, and other oxidising ferments of vegetable origin. 1900 Nature 8 Feb. 339/1 The oxygen-carrying power of certain enzymes known at the present time as ‘oxydases’. 1929 R. P. Walton tr. Waldschmidt-Leitz's Enzyme Actions vii. 231 In these cases, special oxydases..appear to be present. |