dihydropyrimidine

English

Etymology

di- +‎ hydro- +‎ pyrimidine

Noun

dihydropyrimidine (countable and uncountable, plural dihydropyrimidines)

  1. (organic chemistry) A heterocycle formed from pyrimidine by the addition of two hydrogen atoms across a double bond
    • 2015 July 26, Liane Rabinowich, Oren Shibolet, “Drug Induced Steatohepatitis: An Uncommon Culprit of a Common Disease”, in BioMed Research International‎, volume 2015, DOI:10.1155/2015/168905:
      Predisposition to the development of steatosis may be associated with individual patient expression of genes involved in 5-FU metabolism, such as low level of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) mRNA expression.
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