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Definition of Hydroxyurea
1. Noun. (organic compound) The hydroxylated derivative of urea, NH2CO-NHOH, used as an antineoplastic drug; any N- or O- derivative of this compound ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hydroxyurea
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hydroxyurea
1. Inhibitor of DNA synthesis (but not repair). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydroxyurea
Literary usage of Hydroxyurea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Management & Therapy of Sickle Cell Disease edited by Clarice D. Reid, Samuel Charace, Bertram Lubin (1997)
"hydroxyurea Fetal hemoglobin (Hb F) interferes with the polymerization of Hb ...
hydroxyurea, a cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agent, was shown to augment Hb F ..."
2. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"There is not enough О however to oxidize the H intramol. so that it is evolved.
Thus (a) behaves like a hydroxyurea deriv. hydroxyurea, according to ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"... studied the effect of hydroxyurea (HU) treatment, a chronic vitamin-A-deficient
diet, or fetal irradiation on Day 20 of gestation (all of which damaged ..."
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