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synthetic

English

Etymology

From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunthetikós).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: s?nth?t'?k, IPA(key): /s?n???t?k/

Adjective

synthetic (comparative more synthetic, superlative most synthetic)

  1. Of, or relating to synthesis.
  2. (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
  3. Artificial, not genuine.
  4. (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
  5. (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

synthetic (plural synthetics)

  1. A synthetic compound.

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flucytosine

English

Alternative forms

  • 5-fluorocytosine, 5-FC

Etymology

Contraction of fluorocytosine.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /flu?sa?.t??sin/

Noun

flucytosine (uncountable)

  1. (pharmacology) A white crystalline synthetic antimycotic drug C4H4FN3O, a fluorinated pyrimidine analogue structurally related to the cytostatic fluorouracil and to floxuridine. It is used to treat fungal infections especially by members of the genera Candida and Cryptococcus (especially Cryptococcus neoformans).

References

  • “flucytosine”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

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