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FLOX
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of "flanked by loxP"
Verb
flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)
(molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP"
Etymology 2
Noun
flox (uncountable)
Alternative letter-case form of FLOX
Verb
flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)
(astronautics, transitive, dated) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel
Anagrams
• folx
Noun
FLOX (uncountable)
(medicine) Acronym of fluorouracil, leucovorin and oxaliplatin: a chemotherapy regimen against colon cancer.
Anagrams
• folx
Source: Wiktionary
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