AMIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amide mean? 

• AMIDE (noun)
  The noun AMIDE has 1 sense:

1. any organic compound containing the group -CONH2

  Familiarity information: AMIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("amide" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amide"):

acetamide; ethanamide (a colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds)

acrylamide (a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals)

peptide (amide combining the amino group of one amino acid with the carboxyl group of another; usually obtained by partial hydrolysis of protein)

propanamide; proprionamide (the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2))

 Context examples 

The hydrochloride salt from of lidocaine, an aminoethylamide and a prototypical member of the amide class anesthetics.

(Lidocaine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt of levobupivacaine, an amide derivative with anesthetic property.

(Levobupivacaine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

An anhydrous formulation of indinavir, a synthetic hydroxyaminopentane amide agent that selectively inhibits the protease of both human immunodeficiency virus 1 and 2.

(Indinavir Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic hydroxyaminopentane amide agent that selectively inhibits the protease of both human immunodeficiency virus 1 and 2.

(Indinavir, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt form of mepivacaine, an amide derivative with local anesthetic properties.

(Mepivacaine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

N-myristoylation, catalyzed by N-myristoyltransferase, is the amide modification of proteins by the addition of a myristoyl group to an N-terminal glycine residue.

(Myristic Acylation Site, NCI Thesaurus)

A water-soluble, injectable sodium salt form of parecoxib, an amide prodrug of the cyclooxygenase II (COX-2) selective, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) valdecoxib, with anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic activities.

(Parecoxib Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

An amide prodrug of the cyclooxygenase II (COX-2) selective, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) valdecoxib, with anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic activities.

(Parecoxib, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent undergoes a color change as its amide bond is hydrolyzed by beta-lactamase, making it useful as a reagent in beta-lactamase activity studies.

(Nitrocefin, NCI Thesaurus)

A glycosylation site is an amino acid residue within a peptide that accepts oligosaccharide via amide linkage, specifically through amide nitrogen of asparagine via N-acetylglucosamine, as one of the post-translational modifications.

(N-Glycosylation Site, NCI Thesaurus)