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(medicine) Any substance that competes with or inhibits the normal metabolic process, often by acting as an analogue of an essential metabolite..
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Antimetabolite means (medicine) Any substance that competes with or inhibits the normal metabolic process, often by acting as an analogue of an essential metabolite..
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