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nitroheterocyclic

nitroheterocyclic adjective: describing a heterocyclic compound that contains one or more nitro group.

Adjective

nitroheterocyclic (not comparable)

  1. Describing a heterocyclic compound that contains one or more nitro group
    • For the last 40 years, the nitroheterocyclic compounds benznidazole and nifurtimox have been the only drugs available to treat Chagas disease ( 4, 5 ).2015 May 26, Amanda Fortes Francisco et al., “Limited Ability of Posaconazole To Cure both Acute and Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi Infections Revealed by Highly Sensitive In Vivo Imaging”, in...

Noun

nitroheterocyclic (plural nitroheterocyclics)

  1. Any such heterocycle

Forms of nitroheterocyclic

pluralnitroheterocyclics

Origin of nitroheterocyclic

From nitro- + heterocyclic.

Questions about nitroheterocyclic

What does nitroheterocyclic mean?
Nitroheterocyclic means describing a heterocyclic compound that contains one or more nitro group.
What part of speech is nitroheterocyclic?
Nitroheterocyclic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nitroheterocyclic in the dictionary

  1. nitroglycol
  2. nitroguanidine
  3. nitroguanidines
  4. nitroheterocycle
  5. nitroheterocycles
  6. nitroheterocyclic
  7. nitroheterocyclics
  8. nitrohumic
  9. nitrohumic acid
  10. nitrohumic acids
  11. nitrohydrochloric

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