OXALATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oxalate mean? 

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

1. a salt or ester of oxalic acid

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OXALATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt or ester of oxalic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("oxalate" 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 "oxalate"):

uranyl oxalate (a salt obtained by the reaction of uranium salts with oxalic acid)

 Context examples 

The determination of the amount of oxalate present in a sample.

(Oxalate Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the oxalate in a biological specimen.

(Oxalate Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An organoplatinum complex in which the platinum atom is complexed with 1,2-diaminocyclohexane (DACH) and with an oxalate ligand as a 'leaving group.'

(Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding indicating the formation of calcium oxalate crystal deposits in an organ.

(Calcium Oxalate Crystal Deposition, NCI Thesaurus)

The liposomal preparation of oxaliplatin, an organoplatinum complex in which the platinum atom is complexed with 1,2-diaminocyclohexane (DACH) and with an oxalate ligand as a 'leaving group'.

(Liposomal Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of calcium oxalate crystals present in a sample.

(Calcium Oxalate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the calcium oxalate crystals present in a biological specimen.

(Calcium Oxalate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The oxalate salt of escitalopram, a pure S-enantiomer of the racemic bicyclic phthalane derivative citalopram, with antidepressant activity.

(Escitalopram Oxalate, NCI Thesaurus)

Fomepizole prevents the metabolism of ethylene glycol and methanol by alcohol dehydrogenase, thereby inhibiting the formation of their toxic metabolites, glycolate and oxalate (from ethylene glycol), and formic acid (from methanol).

(Fomepizole, NCI Thesaurus)

After displacement of the labile oxalate ligand leaving group, active oxaliplatin derivatives, such as monoaquo and diaquo DACH platinum, alkylate macromolecules, forming both inter- and intra-strand platinum-DNA crosslinks, which result in inhibition of DNA replication and transcription and cell-cycle nonspecific cytotoxicity.

(Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)