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Meaning of alcohol dehydrogenase in English:

alcohol dehydrogenase

noun

Biochemistry

  • Any of a group of enzymes which bring about the oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes or ketones (or occasionally the reverse reaction), with parallel reduction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; abbreviated ADH.

Origin

1930s; earliest use found in Chemical Abstracts.