mercaptopurine

Questions about mercaptopurine

What is another word for mercaptopurine?

It depends which mercaptopurine you mean. In the sense “a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia”, the synonyms are Purinethol. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mercaptopurine?

WordNet records no antonym for mercaptopurine. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mercaptopurine come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mercaptopurine

• Full entry for mercaptopurineAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mercaptopurineWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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