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nitroheterocyclic

adj

Etymology

From nitro- + heterocyclic.

  1. derived from κυκλικός
  2. borrowed from cyclicus
  3. borrowed from cyclique
  4. formed as heterocyclic — “hetero- + cyclic”
  5. prefixed as nitroheterocyclic — “nitro + heterocyclic”

Definitions

  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 ).

  2. Any such heterocycle

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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