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antimetabolite definition

anti·metabo·lite (an′tī mə tab′ə līt′; an′tē-, -ti-)

noun

a drug or biochemical that inhibits a metabolic process by competing with a similarly shaped metabolite for a particular enzyme

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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