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Where does “pegaspargase” come from?

pegaspargase (English) comes from English asparaginase, from English asparagine, from French asparagine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a.

pegaspargase (English): An antineoplastic agent used to treat acute...

Definitions

  1. An antineoplastic agent used to treat acute...

Ancestry of “pegaspargase”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishasparaginaseAn enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of...
2EnglishasparagineA nonessential amino acid CHNO found in plants...
3Frenchasparagineasparagine
4French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
5French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle French-é—
7Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-Italic-ā—
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
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