3 example sentences using moiety.
Moiety used in a sentence
Moiety in a sentence as a noun
It seems that the morphine molecule is largely not destroyed metabolically; the glucuronide moiety is more like a molecular "tag" that tells the kidney to get rid of something.
Sure, the benzene moiety is prolific and crucial throughout biological systems, but plain benzene is a toxic carcinogen.- Why is their favicon cyclohexane instead of benzene, if that was why they're going for?
If too much sugar floats around the blood the immune system feels the need to respond and the sugar related molecules collect and glom into more antigenic moiety junk...blah,blah we then get chemical and physical reactions and clogging of capillaries and membrane pores and all that other complicated stuff.
Moiety definitions
one of two (approximately) equal parts
See also: mediety
one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe