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nitisinone

nitisinone noun: a drug originally developed as a herbicide but now used to treat hereditary tyrosinemia type 1.

Noun

nitisinone (uncountable)

  1. A drug originally developed as a herbicide but now used to treat hereditary tyrosinemia type 1.

Questions about nitisinone

What does nitisinone mean?
Nitisinone means a drug originally developed as a herbicide but now used to treat hereditary tyrosinemia type 1.
What part of speech is nitisinone?
Nitisinone is a noun.

Words near nitisinone in the dictionary

  1. nitidulids
  2. Nitinaht
  3. Nitinat
  4. nitinol
  5. nitinols
  6. nitisinone
  7. nitisol
  8. nitisols
  9. niton
  10. Niton and Whitwell
  11. nitpick

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