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单词 -ogen
释义

-ogencomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: -o- connective, -gen comb. form.
Etymology: < -o- connective + -gen comb. form.Occurring in formations from the first half of the 20th cent., originally in loanwords from German and French.
Biochemistry.
Forming the names of an inactive precursor of a compound to whose name it is appended, as hypertensinogen, kininogen, uroporphyrinogen, etc.
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1961 Rep. Comm. Enzymes Internat. Union Biochem. ix. 49 The names of enzyme precursors should no longer be formed by the use of the suffix ‘-ogen’; the prefix ‘pre-’ should be used instead.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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