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Antimetabolite vs Floxuridine - What's the difference?

antimetabolite | floxuridine |

As nouns the difference between antimetabolite and floxuridine

is that antimetabolite is (medicine) any substance that competes with, or inhibits the normal metabolic process, often by acting as an analogue of an essential metabolite while floxuridine is (medicine) an antimetabolite drug, fluorodeoxyuridine, used in the treatment of colorectal cancer.

antimetabolite

English

Noun

(wikipedia antimetabolite) (en noun)
  • (medicine) Any substance that competes with, or inhibits the normal metabolic process, often by acting as an analogue of an essential metabolite

    • floxuridine

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia floxuridine) (-)
  • (medicine) An antimetabolite drug, fluorodeoxyuridine, used in the treatment of colorectal cancer