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Meaning of detubulate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To remove or disrupt a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).

Examples

“Formamide-induced osmotic shock has been used to detubulate isolated adult rat ventricular myocytes (i.e., disrupt the surface membrane-T tubule junction).”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

detubulated detumble detumbled detumbles detumbling detumesce