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| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A substance that gives rise to a pharmacologically active metabolite, although not itself active(i. e. an inactive precursor). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PRODRUG |
| Specialty definitions using "PRODRUG": Cilazapril ♦ Fosinopril ♦ Prodrugs ♦ Ramipril. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These changes in perception and knowledge may be due to a decrease in antidrug messages in the media, an increase in prodrug messages through the pop culture, and a lack of awareness among parents about this resurgence in drug use - most thinking, perhaps, that this threat to their children had diminished. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PRODRUG" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRODRUG" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PRODRUG": prodrug-activating. | |
| 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 |
prodrug | 10 |
acyclovir philadelphia prodrug | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PRODRUG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pro-drug (pro-drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pro-drug. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lääkeaineen esimuoto, aihiolääke. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | promédicament (Pro-Drug), prodrogue, précurseur de substance active. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pro-Pharmakon (Pro-Drug), Prodrug (Pro-Drug), pro-Arzneimittel (pro-drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προ-φάρμακο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | profarmaco (Pro-Drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | odrugpray pró-fármaco. (various references) profármaco. (various references) prodrug, fördrog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-o-p-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: gourd, group, proud. | |
-3 letters: dorp, dorr, dour, drop, drug, duro, durr, gorp, pour, prod, prog, purr, roup, updo. | |
-4 letters: dog, dor, dug, duo, dup, god, gor, oud, our, pod, pro, pud, pug, pur, rod, rug, udo, upo, urd. | |
-5 letters: do, go, od, op, or, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-o-p-r-r-u" | |
+2 letters: prorogued, regrouped. | |
+3 letters: protruding. | |
+4 letters: reproducing. | |
+5 letters: geopressured, unprogrammed. | |
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