Definition of Cytidine

1. Noun. A nucleoside component of DNA; composed of cytosine and deoxyribose.

Exact synonyms: Deoxycytidine
Generic synonyms: Nucleoside

Definition of Cytidine

1. Noun. (biochemistry genetics) A nucleoside consisting of cytosine linked to ribose ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cytidine

1. a compound containing cytosine [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cytidine

1. Nucleoside consisting of D ribose and the pyrimidine base cytosine. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytidine

cystyl-aminopeptidase
cyt-
cytapheresis
cytarabine
cytase
cytases
cytaster
cytasters
cytauxzoonoses
cytauxzoonosis
cyte
cytee
cytees
cytes
cythemolytic icterus
cytidine (current term)
cytidine 5'-diphosphate
cytidine 5'-monophosphatase
cytidine 5'-triphosphate
cytidine deaminase
cytidine diphosphate
cytidine diphosphate choline
cytidine diphosphate diglycerides
cytidine diphosphocholine
cytidine diphosphoglyceride
cytidine diphosphosugar
cytidine monophosphate
cytidine monophosphate n-acetylneuraminic acid
cytidine phosphate
cytidine triphosphate

Literary usage of Cytidine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The dramatic differences in the absorption, CD, and MCD spectra of cytidine (XIV) observed at pH 7 and at pH 2 are shown in Figure 10. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Monoclinic crystals of the sodium salt of cytidine 2',3'-phosphate contain two onions in the asymmetric unit. Both bases are in the syn conformation, ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"Uridine is crystalline; the cytidine has not been obtained in a crystalline form but it gives several crystalline salts. The uridine is claimed to exist ..."

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