IODIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iodide mean? 

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

1. a salt or ester of hydriodic acid

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IODIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt or ester of hydriodic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

halide (a salt of any halogen acid)

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

potassium iodide (a crystalline salt in organic synthesis and in making photographic emulsions and in iodized table salt)

hydrogen iodide (a colorless gas that yields hydroiodic acid in aqueous solution)

silver iodide (an iodide that is used in photography, in seeding clouds to make rain, and in medicine)

sodium iodide (a crystalline salt used like potassium iodide)

 Context examples 

Echothiophate iodide potentiates the action of endogenous acetylcholine by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase that hydrolyzes acetylcholine.

(Echothiophate Iodide, NCI Thesaurus)

An attenuated oncolytic Edmonston (Ed) strain of measles virus encoding the human thyroidal sodium iodide symporter (MV-NIS) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Oncolytic Measles Virus Encoding Thyroidal Sodium Iodide Symporter, NCI Thesaurus)

Iodide salts are mild reducing agents and many react with oxygen to give iodine.

(Iodide, NCI Thesaurus)

Designed to be administered intravenously, indocyanine green solution (ICG) contains less than 5% sodium iodide.

(Indocyanine Green Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

This is done by interfering with the oxidation of iodide ion and iodotyrosyl groups through inhibition of the peroxidase enzyme.

(Methimazole, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Upon intravenous injection, iodine-131 human serum albumin is slowly deiodinated in vivo, releasing radioactive iodide that is taken up by thyroid gland.

(Iodinated I-131 Serum Albumin, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers altered the chemical composition of the perovskite layers by adding potassium iodide to perovskite inks, which then self-assemble into thin films.

(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)

A recombinant type 5 adenovirus (Ad5), encoding the gene for the human sodium-iodide symporter (NIS) linked to the cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter, with potential gene transfection activity.

(Ad5-CMV-NIS, NCI Thesaurus)

A compound with carcinogenic activity that has a carbon-based backbone that may be a cyclic or non-cyclic structure with single, double or triple bonds and can have other elements besides hydrogen incorporated in its structure but has at least one halogen (chloride, bromide, fluoride, iodide, and astatine) atom substituted for one of the hydrogen atoms.

(Organo-halide Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

Molecules with carcinogenic activity that almost entirely consist of carbon and hydrogen that may be cyclic or non-cyclic structures with single, double bonds or both but have at least one halogen element (chloride, bromide, fluoride, iodide, astatine) atom substituted for one of the hydrogen atoms.

(Carcinogenic Halogenated Hydrocarbon, NCI Thesaurus)