Alkylating drug
any of various potentially cytotoxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic substances: used therapeutically to destroy cells, especially proliferating cancer cells.
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- Alkylation
the replacement of a hydrogen atom in an organic compound by an . the addition of a paraffin to an olefin, done in the manufacture of gasoline. noun the attachment of an alkyl group to an organic compound, usually by the addition or subst-tution of a hydrogen atom or halide group the addition of an […]
- Alkylic
of, relating to, or characteristic of an .
- Alkyne
any member of the alkyne series. noun any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon that has a formula of the type cnh2n–2 (as modifier): alkyne series also called acetylene alkyne (āl’kīn’) any of a group of unsaturated hydrocarbons that havee carbon atoms in chains linked by one or more triple bonds and that have the general formula cnh2n-2. […]
- Alkyne series
the h-m-logous series of unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbons containing one triple bond and having the general formula, c n h 2n+2 , as acetylene, hc≡ch.
- Heap
a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones. informal. a great quant-ty or number; mult-tude: a heap of people. slang. an automobile, especially a dilapidated one. to gather, put, or cast in a heap; pile (often followed by up, on, together, etc.). to acc-mulate or am-ss (often […]