glutamate

See also: Glutamate

English

Etymology

glutamic +‎ -ate

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡluːtəmeɪt/

Noun

glutamate (plural glutamates)

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of glutamic acid.
(neuroscience) The anion of glutamic acid in its role as a neurotransmitter.
- 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 5, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:
  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.

Derived terms

Translations

salt or ester of glutamic acid

Catalan: glutamat m
Czech: glutamát m
Finnish: glutamaatti (fi)
French: glutamate (fr) m
German: Glutamat n
Italian: glutamato (it), glutammato (it)
Polish: glutaminian (pl) m
Portuguese: glutamato
Spanish: glutamato
Swedish: glutamat (sv)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡly.ta.mat/

Noun

glutamate m (plural glutamates)

glutamate

Further reading

“glutamate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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