COAGULASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coagulase mean? 

• COAGULASE (noun)
  The noun COAGULASE has 1 sense:

1. an enzyme that induces coagulation

  Familiarity information: COAGULASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COAGULASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enzyme that induces coagulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("coagulase" is a kind of...):

enzyme (any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coagulase"):

thrombin (an enzyme that acts on fibrinogen in blood causing it to clot)

chymosin; rennin (an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate)

 Context examples 

This bacteria is indole and urease positive, coagulase and arginine dihydrolase negative and acid is produced from glucose, lactose, raffinose and mannose.

(Anaerococcus hydrogenalis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase, urease and oxidase positive, coagulase negative grows bright orange colonies in culture, does not hydrolyze esculin and is indole negative.

(Dermacoccus nishinomiyaensis, NCI Thesaurus)

Compared to clindimycin, pirlimycin has increased activity against gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase negative species of Staphylococcus and Streptococcus.

(Pirlimycin, NCI Thesaurus)

A subtype of Staphylococcus characterized by an ability to produce free plasma coagulase.

(Coagulase-Positive Staphylococcus, NCI Thesaurus)

Any bacteria assigned to the genus Staphylococcus that expresses the enzyme coagulase.

(Coagulase-Positive Staphylococcus, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any bacteria assigned to the genus Staphylococcus that does not express the enzyme coagulase.

(Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This bacteria is urease positive, indole and coagulase negative, ferments glucose and mannose but does not produces acid from raffinose.

(Anaerococcus tetradius, NCI Thesaurus)

A subtype of Staphylococcus characterized by an inability to produce free plasma coagulase.

(Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is indole and coagulase negative, urease positive and produces acid from raffinose, ribose and mannose.

(Anaerococcus prevotii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is halotolerant, coagulase negative, susceptible to bacitracin and does not ferment glucose.

(Micrococcus luteus, NCI Thesaurus)