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SMOOTHENED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does smoothened mean?
• SMOOTHENED (adjective)
The adjective SMOOTHENED has 1 sense:
1. made smooth by ironing
Familiarity information: SMOOTHENED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made smooth by ironing
Synonyms:
smoothed; smoothened
Similar:
ironed ((of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron)
Context examples
Members of the Hh family bind to patched (ptc), thus releasing smoothened (smo) to transduce a signal.
(Hedgehog Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
In the absence of hedgehog, patched represses constitutive smoothened signaling through fused.
(Drosophila Patched Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Patched associates with smoothened protein to transduce hedgehog signal, leading to activation of wingless, decapentaplegic, and patched.
(Drosophila Patched Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
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