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bisphosphate

noun

Etymology

From bis- + phosphate.

  1. derived from phosphate
  2. prefixed as bisphosphate — “bis + phosphate”

Definitions

  1. A diphosphate, especially a compound with two phosphate groups attached to a sugar residue

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bisphosphate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA