CARBAMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carbamate mean? 

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

1. a salt (or ester) of carbamic acid

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARBAMATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt (or ester) of carbamic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("carbamate" 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 "carbamate"):

ammonium carbamate (a salt of carbamic acid that is used as a nitrogen fertilizer)

 Context examples 

The orally available disodium salt, monohydrate, of estramustine phosphate, a synthetic molecule that combines estradiol and nornitrogen mustard through a carbamate link.

(Estramustine Phosphate Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

A carbamate with centrally acting muscle relaxant properties.

(Methocarbamol, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic derivative of benzodioxole and used as an insecticide synergist, Piperonyl Butoxide enhances the active properties of pyrethrin, pyrethroid, rotenone, and carbamate pesticide ingredients by inhibiting insect microsomal enzyme detoxification activity.

(Piperonyl Butoxide, NCI Thesaurus)

The l-alanine ester form of estramustine, a combination of the nitrogen mustard normustine coupled via a carbamate to estradiol, with antineoplastic activity.

(Alestramustine, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic molecule combining estradiol and nornitrogen mustard through a carbamate link.

(Estramustine, NCI Thesaurus)

A fluoropyrimidine carbamate belonging to the class of antineoplastic agents called antimetabolites.

(Capecitabine, NCI Thesaurus)

A sulfhydryl-containing carbamate that is the primary in vivo metabolite of disulfiram.

(Ditiocarb, NCI Thesaurus)

A rapidly disintegrating film-coated tablet composed of the fluoropyrimidine carbamate antimetabolite capecitabine with antineoplastic activity.

(Capecitabine Rapidly Disintegrating Tablet, NCI Thesaurus)

A carbamate derivate with hypnotic, anti-anxiety, sedative, anticonvulsant and some indirect muscle relaxant properties.

(Meprobamate, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic acetylenic carbamate, an alkylating agent, with antineoplastic activity.

(Enpromate, NCI Thesaurus)