Michaelis-Menten kinetics
noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction
Mi·chae·lis-Men·ten kinetics
-ˈmen-tən- 
: the behavior of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction with a single substrate especially as exhibited by plotting the velocity of the reaction against the concentration of the substrate which yields a hyperbolic curve approaching a horizontal asymptote rather than yielding a straight line as in nonenzymatic reactions and which has an equation of the form where v is the velocity of the reaction, V is the asymptotic value of the velocity, Km is the Michaelis constant, and s is the concentration of the substrate
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“Michaelis-Menten kinetics.” Merriam-Webster.com Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/Michaelis-Menten%20kinetics. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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