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CARMUSTINE

Specialty Definition: CARMUSTINE

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Health

An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called alkylating agents. (references)

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

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Crosswords: CARMUSTINE

Specialty definitions using "CARMUSTINE": nitrosoureas. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: CARMUSTINE

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Health

It also causes some of the side effects that can accompany chemotherapy — such as skin reactions, hair loss, or digestive problems — because a high proportion of these normal cell types are also growing and dividing at any given time. The drugs most commonly used for CNS tumors are known by the initials BCNU (sometimes called carmustine) and CCNU (or lomustine). (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CARMUSTINE

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

carmustine

9
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Modern Translation: CARMUSTINE

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

Danish

  

carmustin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

carmustine. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

karmustiini. (various references)

   

French

  

carmustine. (various references)

   

German

  

Carmustine, Carmustin. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καÏμουστίνη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

carmustina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armustinecay

   

Portuguese

  

carmustina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

carmustina. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

karmustin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CARMUSTINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: antiserum, manicures, miscreant, muscarine, ruminates, truancies.

-2 letters: amnestic, aneurism, anuretic, autecism, canister, carmines, centaurs, centrism, centrums, ceramist, ceratins, cisterna, craniums, creatins, cremains, cumarins, curtains, manicure, matrices, menstrua, minarets, mistrace, muriates, muricate, natriums, naturism, neumatic, numerics, raiments, recusant, ruinates, ruminate, scantier, scimetar, semantic, suricate, tacrines, taurines, terminus, tsunamic, uncrates, unmiters, unmitres, uranites, urinates.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: intercampus.

 

+2 letters: acquirements, anticonsumer, circumstance, curtailments, euchromatins, mercurations.

 

+3 letters: anticonsumers, circumstanced, circumstances, counterclaims, counterimages, customariness, documentaries, documentarist, gastrocnemius, manufactories, paramountcies, superromantic, unimportances, unsymmetrical.

 

+4 letters: antirheumatics, commensuration, discouragement, documentarians, documentarists, incommensurate, macronutrients, recomputations, submetacentric, ultramasculine, vermiculations.

 

+5 letters: circumnavigates, circumstantiate, commensurations, customarinesses, discouragements, echinodermatous, excommunicators, macroevolutions, mercaptopurines, pronunciamentos, semidocumentary, semitranslucent, submetacentrics, unsymmetrically.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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