antimetabolite love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A substance that closely resembles an essential metabolite and therefore interferes with physiological reactions involving it.

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  • noun medicine Any substance that competes with, or inhibits the normal metabolic process, often by acting as an analogue of an essential metabolite

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  • noun an antineoplastic drug that inhibits the utilization of a metabolite

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