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NMD

NMD is the initialism of nonsense-mediated decay.

NMD is the initialism of National Missile Defense.

Meaning of nonsense-mediated decay

Noun

nonsense-mediated decay (uncountable)

  1. A cellular pathway for the rapid destruction of messenger RNAs with premature stop codons resulting from nonsense mutations or frameshifts.
    Synonyms:
    NMD

Questions about NMD

What is NMD the initialism of?
NMD is the initialism of nonsense-mediated decay.

Words near NMD in the dictionary

  1. NMACC
  2. NMAs
  3. NMB
  4. NMC
  5. NMCC
  6. NMD
  7. NMDA
  8. NME
  9. NMEA
  10. NMed
  11. NMHA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NMD (page history and authors); nonsense-mediated decay (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.

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