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CYTOSTATIC

Specialty Definition: CYTOSTATIC

DomainDefinition

Health

An agent that suppresses cell growth and multiplication. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CYTOSTATIC

Specialty definitions using "CYTOSTATIC": Antineoplastic Agents, PhytogenicCycloleucineDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorFormycinsGuanazoleZinostatin. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CYTOSTATIC

DomainTitle

Books

  • Carcinogenicity of Alkylating Cytostatic Drugs (Iarc Scientific Publications, No 78) (reference)

  • The Ambivalence of cytostatic therapy (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CYTOSTATIC

"CYTOSTATIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CYTOSTATIC" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CYTOSTATIC

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cytostatic

10

coated cytostatic drug stent

3

agent cytostatic

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CYTOSTATIC

Language Translations for "CYTOSTATIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

cytostatikum, cytostatika. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

cytostaticum. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sytostaattinen, solunsalpaaja-. (various references)

   

French

  

cytostatique (a et sm), cytostatique, cystostatique. (various references)

   

German

  

Zytostatikum. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κυτταροστατικός. (various references)

   

Italian

  

citostatico. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ytostaticcay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

citostático, citostático. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

citostático. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CYTOSTATIC

Derivations

Words beginning with "CYTOSTATIC": cytostatically, cytostatics. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CYTOSTATIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-o-s-t-t-t-y"

-3 letters: tactics, tictacs, tictocs.

-4 letters: accost, attics, coacts, coatis, cottas, cystic, scatty, scotia, static, tactic, tictac, tictoc, toasty.

-5 letters: ascot, attic, cacti, catty, cisco, coact, coast, coati, coats, cocas, costa, cotta, cycas, iotas, ostia, scatt, stoai, stoat, stoic, tacit, tacos, tacts, tasty, tatty, toast, toits.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-o-s-t-t-t-y"
 

+1 letter: cytostatics.

 

+4 letters: cytostatically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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