SINCE 1828
prototropy
noun
pro·tot·ro·py
| \prō-ˈtä-trə-pē
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plural prototropies
Medical Definition of prototropy
: tautomerism involving the migration of a proton especially to a location three atoms distant in an organic molecule — compare anionotropy, cationotropy
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