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- noun biochemistry A crystallizable
flavoprotein enzyme containingiron andmolybdenum that promotes theoxidation especially ofhypoxanthine andxanthine touric acid and of manyaldehydes tocarboxylic acids and that is obtained usually frommilk orliver
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