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Element (medicine) and folic acid antagonist (medicine)


Element (medicine)


element
<chemistry> One of the 103 known chemical substances that cannot be divided into simpler substances by chemical means. A substance whose atoms all have the same atomic number.

Examples: hydrogen, lead, uranium.(See atom, matter, nuclide.)


folic acid antagonist (medicine)


folic acid antagonist
<pharmacology> A chemical which inhibits a cells capacity to use folic acid and so prevent cell division, for example methotrexate.

See: chemotherapy.