Word.ws English Dictionary

hydroxydione

hydroxydione noun: a neuroactive steroid, used as a general anesthetic.

Noun

hydroxydione (uncountable)

  1. A neuroactive steroid, used as a general anesthetic.

Origin of hydroxydione

From hydroxy- + dione.

Questions about hydroxydione

What does hydroxydione mean?
Hydroxydione means a neuroactive steroid, used as a general anesthetic.
What part of speech is hydroxydione?
Hydroxydione is a noun.

Words near hydroxydione in the dictionary

  1. hydroxydeoxyguanosine
  2. hydroxyderivative
  3. hydroxyderivatives
  4. hydroxydienone
  5. hydroxydienones
  6. hydroxydione
  7. hydroxydopamine
  8. hydroxydopamines
  9. hydroxyecdysone
  10. hydroxyecdysones
  11. hydroxyectoine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hydroxydione (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hydroxydione.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hydroxydione. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.