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BrdU

BrdU is the abbreviation of bromodeoxyuridine.

Meaning of bromodeoxyuridine

Noun

bromodeoxyuridine (uncountable, abbreviation BrdU)

  1. A synthetic nucleoside which is an analogue of thymidine; it is commonly used in the detection of proliferating cells in living tissues, where it competes with uridine

Questions about BrdU

What is BrdU the abbreviation of?
BrdU is the abbreviation of bromodeoxyuridine.

Words near BrdU in the dictionary

  1. BRCs
  2. BRD
  3. BRDF
  4. BRDFs
  5. Brdovec
  6. BrdU
  7. BRE
  8. Brea
  9. breacan
  10. breacans
  11. breach

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BrdU (page history and authors); bromodeoxyuridine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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