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OXALATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A salt or ester of oxalic acid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("oxalate" is a kind of...):
salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oxalate"):
uranyl oxalate (a salt obtained by the reaction of uranium salts with oxalic acid)
Context examples:
After displacement of the labile oxalate ligand leaving group, the active oxaliplatin derivatives (monoaquo and diaquo DACH platinum) alkylate macromolecules, and form both inter- and intra-strand platinum-DNA crosslinks, thereby inhibiting DNA replication and resulting in cytotoxicity.
(Liposomal Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)
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