Medical Definition of Secosteroid
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A compound derived from a steroid in which there has been a ring cleavage.
Steroids in which fission of one or more ring structures and concomitant addition of a hydrogen atom at each terminal group has occurred.
Origin: L. Seco, to cut, + steroid
(05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secosteroid
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