(n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observation of occasional triangular and dual-intensity projections and the interconversion of all three projection forms in tilting studies indicates that this tetrameric enzyme has a structure very similar to the tetrahedron-like configuration previously proposed for pyruvate carboxylases from vertebrate sources [Mayer, F., Wallace, J. C. and Keech, D. B.
(2) Eleven of nineteen residues in the region of biotin attachment, when compared to pyruvate carboxylase from avian liver (Rylatt, D. B., Keech, D. B., and Wallace, J. C. (1977) Arch.
(3) The effects of Mg2+ on the reaction kinetics of the enzyme-[14C]carboxybiotin complex with 2-oxobutyrate were similar to those observed with the sheep enzyme by Goodall, Baldwin, Wallace & Keech [(1981) Biochem.