Definition: 'Bodansky Unit'
Bodansky unit
Type: TermPronunciation: bō-dan′skē
Definitions:
1. that amount of phosphatase that liberates 1 mg of phosphorus as inorganic phosphate during the first hour of incubation with a buffered substrate containing sodium β-glycerophosphate.
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