BIDENTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bidentate mean? 

• BIDENTATE (adjective)
  The adjective BIDENTATE has 1 sense:

1. having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed

  Familiarity information: BIDENTATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIDENTATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed

Similar:

rough (of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped)

 Context examples 

The invariant Glu or Asp at position 12 provides two oxygens for liganding Ca (bidentate ligand).

(Calcium-Binding Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally bioavailable bidentate ligand with iron chelating activity.

(Deferiprone, NCI Thesaurus)

Containing a novel ring structure in which glycolate is bound to the platinum by a bidentate ligand, nedaplatin forms reactive platinum complexes that bind to nucelophillic groups in DNA, resulting in intrastrand and interstrand DNA cross-links, apoptosis and cell death.

(Nedaplatin, NCI Thesaurus)