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drugable

drugable is the alternative form of druggable.

Meaning of druggable

Adjective

druggable (comparative more druggable, superlative most druggable)

  1. Describing the potential of a biological molecule (for example, a protein) to be targeted by drugs, especially by small molecule drugs; describing the potential of a disease to be treated thus.
    • With only 10% of the human genome representing druggable targets, and only half of those being relevant to disease, it is important to be able to predict how druggable a novel target is in early drug discovery.2007 March, Joanna Owens, “Determining druggability”, in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, volume 6, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 187–187
    Antonyms:
    undruggable, non-druggable

Questions about drugable

What is drugable the alternative form of?
Drugable is the alternative form of druggable.

Words near drugable in the dictionary

  1. drug-naïve
  2. drug-ridden
  3. drug-runner
  4. drug-runners
  5. drugability
  6. drugable
  7. drugbuster
  8. drugbusters
  9. drugeries
  10. drugery
  11. drugeteria

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