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metirosine

metirosine noun: an antihypertensive drug that inhibits tyrosine hydroxylase.

Noun

metirosine (uncountable)

  1. An antihypertensive drug that inhibits tyrosine hydroxylase.

Forms of metirosine

alternative formmetyrosine

Origin of metirosine

Shortening of methyltyrosine.

Words formed from metirosine

  • racemetirosine

Questions about metirosine

What does metirosine mean?
Metirosine means an antihypertensive drug that inhibits tyrosine hydroxylase.
What part of speech is metirosine?
Metirosine is a noun.

Words near metirosine in the dictionary

  1. meting
  2. meting out
  3. metings
  4. metipranolol
  5. metiram
  6. metirosine
  7. metis
  8. metisazone
  9. metisse
  10. metisses
  11. metitepine

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