BENZOATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does benzoate mean? 

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

1. any salt or ester of benzoic acid

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENZOATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any salt or ester of benzoic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

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

benzoate of soda; sodium benzoate (a white crystalline salt used as a food preservative and antiseptic)

 Context examples 

The meglumine salt form of iodipamide, a tri-iodinated benzoate derivative and an ionic dimeric contrast agent used in diagnostic imaging.

(Iodipamide Meglumine, NCI Thesaurus)

An ionic tri-iodinated benzoate used as a contrast agent in diagnostic imaging.

(Iothalamic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Lithium benzoate exerts natriuretic activity and disinfects the urinary tract, but has considerable toxicity.

(Lithium Benzoate, NCI Thesaurus)

The benzoate salt form of alogliptin, a selective, orally bioavailable, pyrimidinedione-based inhibitor of dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4), with hypoglycemic activity.

(Alogliptin Benzoate, NCI Thesaurus)

A tri-iodinated benzoate derivative and ionic dimeric contrast agent used in diagnostic imaging.

(Iodipamide, NCI Thesaurus)

The benzoate of a estradiol-chlorambucil conjugate.

(Atrimustine, NCI Thesaurus)

A water-soluble, tri-iodinated, non-ionic monomeric benzoate derivative and contrast medium used in diagnostic radiography.

(Iobitridol, NCI Thesaurus)

The benzoate salt of metronidazole, a synthetic nitroimidazole derivative with antiprotozoal and antibacterial activities.

(Metronidazole Benzoate, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic butylamino-benzoate derivative related to tetracaine and a peripherally acting antitussive, nonnarcotic Benzonatate reduces the cough reflex by anesthetizing and depressing mechanoreceptors in the respiratory passages, lungs, and pleura.

(Benzonatate, NCI Thesaurus)