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hydroxyamide

hydroxyamide noun: the amide of a hydroxy acid.

Noun

hydroxyamide (plural hydroxyamides)

  1. The amide of a hydroxy acid
    • Novel hydroxyamide compounds developed using rational drug designing approaches, based on the binding site of phenytoin to VGSCs, have demonstrated significant inhibition of voltage-gated sodium channel activities and increased inhibition of androgen–independent prostate cancer cell growth in vitro...2015 May 22, Vidhya R. Rao et al., “Voltage-Gated Ion Channels in Cancer Cell Proliferation”, in Cancers, volume 7, →DOI

Forms of hydroxyamide

pluralhydroxyamides

Origin of hydroxyamide

From hydroxy + amide.

Questions about hydroxyamide

What does hydroxyamide mean?
Hydroxyamide means the amide of a hydroxy acid.
What part of speech is hydroxyamide?
Hydroxyamide is a noun.
What is the plural of hydroxyamide?
The plural of hydroxyamide is hydroxyamides.

Words near hydroxyamide in the dictionary

  1. hydroxyalkylations
  2. hydroxyalkyls
  3. hydroxyaluminate
  4. hydroxyaluminates
  5. hydroxyamfetamine
  6. hydroxyamide
  7. hydroxyamides
  8. hydroxyamino
  9. hydroxyamphetamine
  10. hydroxyaniline
  11. hydroxyanilines

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