Medical Dictionary
purine base
noun
Medical Definition of PURINE BASE
: any of a group of crystalline bases comprising purine and bases derived from it (as adenine, caffeine, guanine, theobromine, or xanthine) some of which are components of nucleosides and nucleotides
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