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bromodeoxyuridine

bromodeoxyuridine noun: 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.

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

Forms of bromodeoxyuridine

abbreviationBrdU

Questions about bromodeoxyuridine

What does bromodeoxyuridine mean?
Bromodeoxyuridine means 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.
What part of speech is bromodeoxyuridine?
Bromodeoxyuridine is a noun.

Words near bromodeoxyuridine in the dictionary

  1. bromocyanogen
  2. bromocyclization
  3. bromocyclizations
  4. bromodeboronation
  5. bromodeoxiuridine
  6. bromodeoxyuridine
  7. bromoderivative
  8. bromoderma
  9. bromodichloroethane
  10. bromodichloroethanes
  11. bromodichloromethane

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