HYDROXY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydroxy mean? 

• HYDROXY (adjective)
  The adjective HYDROXY has 1 sense:

1. being or containing a hydroxyl group

  Familiarity information: HYDROXY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROXY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being or containing a hydroxyl group

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

hydroxyl (the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols)

 Context examples 

As a prodrug, delapril is converted to two active metabolites, delapril diacid and 5-hydroxy delapril diacid, which competitively bind to and inhibit ACE, thereby blocking the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II.

(Delapril, NCI Thesaurus)

Fesoterodine is rapidly hydrolyzed in vivo into its active metabolite 5-hydroxy methyl tolterodine, which binds and inhibits muscarinic receptors on the bladder detrusor muscle, thereby preventing bladder contractions or spasms caused by acetylcholine.

(Fesoterodine, NCI Thesaurus)

As a dimer of indole-3-carbinol, diindolylmethane (DIM) modulates estrogen balance by reducing the levels of 16-hydroxy estrogen metabolites and increasing the formation of beneficial 2-hydroxy estrogen metabolites.

(Oral Microencapsulated Diindolylmethane, NCI Thesaurus)

These neoplasms secrete fibroblast growth factor 23, which in addition to causing decreased renal phosphate reabsorption also affects the expression of 25-hydroxy-1-alpha-hydroxylase resulting in poor bone mineralization.

(Oncogenic Osteomalacia, NCI Thesaurus)

In the body dalvastatin is hydrolyzed to its active beta-hydroxy acid form.

(Dalvastatin, NCI Thesaurus)

A compound found in foods and consisting of two carbons with a hydroxy group attached to one carbon.

(Dietary Alcohol, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A class of compounds characterized by vanilloid ring (4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenxylamide) joined to a side chain through a nitrogen atom.

(Capsaicinoid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A calcium salt form of mandelic acid, an aromatic alpha hydroxy acid used in the treatment of urinary tract infections and as an oral antibiotic.

(Calcium Mandelate, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase protein, plays a role in the regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis.

(HMGCR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Reduction of the carbonyl on the dihydroxyacetone backbone leaves a hydroxy group to be esterified with another fatty acid side chain.

(Plasmalogen Synthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)