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Antimetabolite Moderate

Origin: Greek prefix anti-

Antimetabolite has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an antineoplastic drug that inhibits the utilization of a metabolite

2

Any substance that competes with, or inhibits the normal metabolic process, often by acting as an analogue of an essential metabolite

See Also
antimetabolites metabolic pteroylaspartic metabolite antimetabolic fluoropyrimidine antipyrimidine mangotoxin
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
antineoplastic
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
fluorouracil mercaptopurine methotrexate
Rhyming Words
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