Usually means: Substance that blocks normal metabolism.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. antimetabolite: Merriam-Webster
  2. antimetabolite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antimetabolite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antimetabolite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antimetabolite: Vocabulary.com
  6. antimetabolite: Wiktionary
  7. antimetabolite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. antimetabolite: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. antimetabolite: Dictionary.com
  10. Antimetabolite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. antimetabolite: Rhymezone
  12. antimetabolite: FreeDictionary.org
  13. antimetabolite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. antimetabolite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. antimetabolite: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antimetabolite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. antimetabolite: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Antimetabolite: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Antimetabolite: Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
  6. antimetabolite: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  7. antimetabolite: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. antimetabolite: Medical dictionary
  9. Antimetabolite: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Antimetabolite: Medicinal Chemistry

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antimetabolite)

▸ noun:  (medicine) Any substance that competes with, or inhibits the normal metabolic process, often by acting as an analogue of an essential metabolite.

Similar:
antimitotic, anticatabolite, antivitamin, contrastimulant, antipyrimidine, antinutrient, antimutagenic, antipathogen, antihormone, inhibitor, more...

Opposite:
metabolite, pro-metabolite, anabolic

Types:
methotrexate, 6-MP, azathioprine, 5-FU, cytarabine, gemcitabine, flox, more...

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Similar:
antimitotic, anticatabolite, antivitamin, contrastimulant, antipyrimidine, antinutrient, antimutagenic, antipathogen, antihormone, inhibitor, more...

Opposite:
metabolite, pro-metabolite, anabolic

Types:
methotrexate, 6-MP, azathioprine, 5-FU, cytarabine, gemcitabine, flox, more...



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