See Also: dehydro-(medicine)
dehydro-(dictionary)
dehydro-3-epiandrosterone(medicine)
2-dehydro-3-deoxyphosphoheptonate aldolase(medicine)
2-dehydro-3-deoxyphosphooctonate aldolase(medicine)

mallenders (iou) and dehydro- (medicine)


mallenders (iou)



mallenders noun. Also (earlier) mallender, malander, malanders. LME.
[Old & mod. French malandre from Latin malandria pl., pustules on the neck.]
Veterinary Medicine. A dry scabby eruption behind the knee in horses. Cf. SALLENDERS.

dehydro- (medicine)


dehydro-
<prefix> Prefix used in the names of those chemical compounds that differ from Other and more familiar compounds in the absence of two hydrogen atoms; e.g., dehydroascorbic acid, which resembles ascorbic acid in all structural features except for its lack of two hydrogen atoms that are present in the ascorbic acid molecule. In systematic nomenclature, didehydro-is preferred as being more exact.