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parent drug

noun

Etymology

From parent + drug.

  1. derived from *dʰerǵʰ-✻ — “to strengthen; become hard or solid”
  2. derived from *draugiz✻ — “dry, hard”
  3. derived from drōgi — “dry”
  4. derived from droghe — “dry”
  5. derived from droge
  6. derived from drogue
  7. inherited from drogge — “medicine”
  8. compounded as parent drug — “parent + drug”

Definitions

  1. The initial compound in a biotransformation reaction, requiring metabolism for activation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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