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Glutamate

//ˈɡlu.tə.meɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any salt or ester of glutamic acid.
  2. 2
    a salt or ester of glutamic acid wordnet
  3. 3
    The anion of glutamic acid in its role as a neurotransmitter.

    "At a synaptic level, the axon terminal having to repeatedly release glutamate is the lecturer droning on repetitively; the moment when the postsynaptic threshold is passed and the NMDA receptors first activate is the dendritic spine finally getting it."

Etymology

From glutamic acid + -ate.

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