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Thiouracil

Definition: Thiouracil

Thiouracil

Noun

1. Depresses the function of the thyroid gland.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Thiouracil

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Health

Occurs in seeds of Brassica and Crucifera species. Thiouracil has been used as antithyroid, coronary vasodilator, and in congestive heart failure although its use has been largely supplanted by other drugs. It is known to cause blood dyscrasias and suspected of terato- and carcinogenesis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Thiouracil

English words defined with "thiouracil": goitrogen. (references)

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Modern Translations: Thiouracil

Language Translations for "thiouracil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

硫尿嘧啶. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iouracilthay

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Derivations: Thiouracil

Derivations

Words beginning with "thiouracil": thiouracils. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Thiouracil

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-i-l-o-r-t-u"

-2 letters: acrolith, trochili, uralitic.

-3 letters: chariot, chorial, curtail, haircut, haricot, thiolic, trochal, trochil, urolith.

-4 letters: aortic, archil, author, caroli, chalot, chiral, chital, choral, citola, citral, coital, curial, curtal, harlot, iatric, italic, lictor, liroth, litchi, lithia, lithic, lochia, lorica, ocular, orchil, rialto, rictal, ritual, tailor, thoria, thoric, thulia, toluic, torula, turaco, uracil, uratic.

-5 letters: actor, aioli.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-i-l-o-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: thiouracils.

 

+2 letters: unhistorical.

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Alternative Orthography: Thiouracil


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 68 69 6F 75 72 61 63 69 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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