detubulate

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English

Etymology

From de- +‎ tubulate.

Verb

detubulate (third-person singular simple present detubulates, present participle detubulating, simple past and past participle detubulated)

  1. To remove or disrupt a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).
    • 1999 August 1, Makoto Kawai, “Excitation-contraction coupling in rat ventricular myocytes after formamide-induced detubulation”, in Heart and Circulatory Physiology:
      Formamide-induced osmotic shock has been used to detubulate isolated adult rat ventricular myocytes (i.e., disrupt the surface membrane-T tubule junction).