Labile at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Labile? Unstable or unsteady; not fixed; characterized by adaptability to alteration or modification, i.e., relatively easily changed, as in cleavage of a molecule or molecular rearrangement in a compound or complex chemical material.

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