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Definition of: serine
(ser′ēn, -in) noun Biochem.
A white crystalline amino acid, C3H7NO3, obtained as a dissociation product of various proteins. Also ser′in. [<L sericus silken + -INE2; so called because originally obtained from dissociation of sericin]
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