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OXALATE

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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 Context examples: 

After displacement of the labile oxalate ligand leaving group, the active oxaliplatin derivatives (monoaquo and diaquo DACH platinum) alkylate macromolecules, and form both inter- and intra-strand platinum-DNA crosslinks, thereby inhibiting DNA replication and resulting in cytotoxicity.

(Liposomal Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)