English word bisthiourea comes from English thiourea, English bis-
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| thiourea | English (eng) | (organic compound) Any of a class of compounds based on NH2-CS-NH2, formally derived from urea by replacing the oxygen atom with sulfur, used in photography as a fixing agent, in inorganic synthesis, and in medicine as an antithyroid drug. |
| bis- | English (eng) | (chemistry, obsolete) A variant of tri- used to indicate that the component that does not take the prefix occurs twice in the compound: a bisoxide is of the form B2O. (mathematics, chemistry) A variant of di-, used for substitutions of two complex rather than simple units.. An occasional variant of bi- prefixed to roots beginning with a vowel, as in bisalternate. |
| bisthiourea | English (eng) | (organic chemistry) Any compound containing two thiourea moieties. |