English word depyrimidination comes from English accumulate, English -ation, English pyrimidine
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| accumulate | English (eng) | (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.. (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literal or figurative) (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated. |
| -ation | English (eng) | A state or quality. An action or process. The result of an action or process. |
| pyrimidine | English (eng) | (organic compound) A diazine in which the two nitrogen atoms are in the meta- positions; it is the basis of three of the bases found in DNA and RNA: thymine, uracil and cytosine. |
| depyrimidination | English (eng) | (chemistry, biology) A process in which the chemical bond linking a pyrimidine (cytosine or thymine) to a deoxyribose sugar breaks spontaneously. It occurs at a lower rate compared to depurination with only 500 cytosine and thymine bases lost per cell per day in a typical mammalian cell. |