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azacrine

azacrine noun: a particular mepacrine analogue.

Noun

azacrine (uncountable)

  1. A particular mepacrine analogue.
    • Azacrine, an analogue of mepacrine, showed good schizontocidal activity and low toxicity against P. gallinaceum and P. berghei […]1961, WHO Technical Report Series, page 16
    • The flexible side chain of atabrine may be shortened, and the substituents on the methylene groups or terminal amino groups changed to yield azacrine or acranil, with little change in effectiveness.1981, Biochemical Journal, volume 193, page 334

Questions about azacrine

What does azacrine mean?
Azacrine means a particular mepacrine analogue.
What part of speech is azacrine?
Azacrine is a noun.

Words near azacrine in the dictionary

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  4. azacoumarin
  5. azacoumarins
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  8. azacyclic
  9. azacyclonol
  10. azacyclophane
  11. azacyclophanes

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