CONSTERNATION
\kɒnstənˈe͡ɪʃən], \kɒnstənˈeɪʃən], \k_ɒ_n_s_t_ə_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
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By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] Amazement or terror which confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for thought or action; amazement; perturbation.
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Astonishment, amazement, terrour, dread.
By Thomas Sheridan
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Procollagen Proline Dioxygenase
- mixed-function oxygenase that catalyzes hydroxylation prolyl-glycyl-containing-peptide, usually in protocollagen, hydroxyprolylglycyl-peptide. The enzyme utilizes molecular oxygen with a concomitant oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoglutarate to succinate. EC 1.14.11.2.