cyclopentanophenanthrene

English
common steroid skeleton

Noun

cyclopentanophenanthrene (usually uncountable, plural cyclopentanophenanthrenes)

  1. (organic chemistry) The tetracyclic skeleton that, with a branched side chain, is common to all steroids.
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