CLIOQUINOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Clioquinol mean? 

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

1. drug used to treat certain fungal infection (as athlete's foot)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIOQUINOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drug used to treat certain fungal infection (as athlete's foot)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Clioquinol; iodochlorhydroxyquin

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

antifungal; antifungal agent; antimycotic; antimycotic agent; fungicide (any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi)

 Context examples 

Clioquinol forms a stable chelate with copper (copper (II) ions), which inhibits the chymotrypsin-like activity of the proteasome; consequently, ubiquitinated proteins may accumulate in tumor cells, followed by tumor cell apoptosis and the inhibition of tumor angiogenesis.

(Clioquinol, NCI Thesaurus)