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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A nucleoside that substitutes for thymidine in DNA and thus acts as an antimetabolite. It causes breaks in chromosomes and has been proposed as an antiviral and antineoplastic agent. It has been given orphan drug status for use in the treatment of primary brain tumors. (references) |
Medicine | A labelling chemical which mimics one of the building blocks of DNA. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BROMODEOXYURIDINE |
| Specialty definitions using "BROMODEOXYURIDINE": Bromouracil. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BROMODEOXYURIDINE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "BROMODEOXYURIDINE" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BROMODEOXYURIDINE": bromodeoxyuridine-positive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bromodeoxyuridine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BROMODEOXYURIDINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | bromdeoxyuridin (BrdU), BrdU (BrdU). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | broomdesoxyuridine, broomdeoxyuridine (BrdU), BrdU (BrdU). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | bromodeoxyuridine, bromodéoxyuridine (BrdU), BrdU (BrdU). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Bromodesoxyuridin, Bromdesoxyuridin (BrdU), BrdU (BrdU). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | BrdU (BrdU), βρωμοδεσοξυουριδίνη (BrdU). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | bromodeossiuridina (BrdU), BrdU (BrdU). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omodeoxyuridinebray bromodesoxiuridina (BrdU), BrdU (BrdU). (various references) bromodeoxiuridina (BrdU), BrdU (BrdU). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Bibliography |
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