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CISPLATIN

Specialty Definition: CISPLATIN

DomainDefinition

Health

An inorganic and water-soluble platinum complex. After undergoing hydrolysis, it reacts with DNA to produce both intra and interstrand crosslinks. These crosslinks appear to impair replication and transcription of DNA. The cytotoxicity of cisplatin correlates with cellular arrest in the G2 phase of the cell cycle. (references)

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Crosswords: CISPLATIN

Specialty definitions using "CISPLATIN": Ondansetron, OXi-104. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CISPLATIN

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Mechanism of Cisplatin Resistance and Its Circumvention (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: CISPLATIN

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The image shows cisplatin crystals, which is a platinum compound, and used as a chemotherapy drug. Credit: Larry Ostby (photographer).

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Non-Fiction Usage: CISPLATIN

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Addition of other drugs to cisplatin has not been associated with survival advantages, although the objective response rate is sometimes increased. (references)

Cisplatin is the drug with the best documented single-agent activity in cervical cancer, with response rates of 18-31 percent in multiple trials conducted in more than 900 patients. (references)

Received additional approval on June 30, 1998 for use in combination with the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer in patients who are not candidates for surgery or radiation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CISPLATIN

"CISPLATIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CISPLATIN" is used about 47 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
Noun (singular)100%4749,740

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

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Expressions: CISPLATIN

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "CISPLATIN": cisplatin-dna, cisplatin-modified.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CISPLATIN

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

cisplatin

97

c cisplatin mitomycin

6

cisplatin side effects

4

cisplatin structure

4

biphasic cisplatin emesis pattern

3

cisplatin gemzar

2
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Modern Translation: CISPLATIN

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

Danish

  

cis-platin (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II), cisplatin, cis-diaminodichlorplatin (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

cisplatinum (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II), cisplatine, cis-platina (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sisplatiini (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II). (various references)

   

French

  

cisplatine (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II), platine II cis-dichlorodiamine (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II). (various references)

   

German

  

Cisplatin (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σισπλατίνη (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cis-platino (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II), cisplatino. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isplatincay

   

Portuguese

  

cisplatinum (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II), cisplatina, cis-diclorodiamina platinum (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cisplatino (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

cisplatin (cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CISPLATIN

Derivations

Words beginning with "CISPLATIN": cisplatins. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CISPLATIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-n-p-s-t"

-1 letter: alpinist, antislip, pintails, piscinal, platinic, tailspin.

-2 letters: aplitic, caplins, catlins, catnips, incisal, inclasp, inclips, italics, pianist, pintail, piscina, plaints, plastic, salicin, tincals.

-3 letters: actins, anisic, antics, caplin, casini, catlin, catnip, claspt, inclip, instal, instil, isatin, italic, lapins, linacs, lipins, nastic, paints, panics, pastil, patins, pianic, pintas, pistil, plains, plaint, plaits, plants, pliant, ptisan.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-n-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: cisplatins, plasticine, plications, sincipital.

 

+2 letters: plasticines, politicians, pontificals, spiculation.

 

+3 letters: antipolitics, applications, capitalising, compilations, duplications, encephalitis, explications, implications, inculpations, plasticizing, publications, replications, speciational, spiculations, supplicating, supplication.

 

+4 letters: antiparticles, capitulations, complications, compositional, coplanarities, incompatibles, inscriptional, multiplicands, neoplasticism, neoplasticist, noncapitalist, nonspecialist, pantheistical, paternalistic, personalistic, pianistically, pictorialness, provincialist, punctualities, supplications, triplications.

 

+5 letters: amplifications, anticapitalism, anticapitalist, antiepileptics, antineoplastic, antiphlogistic, antiseptically, antisyphilitic, cephalizations, compensability, conspirational, conspiratorial, disciplinarity, encephalitides, exceptionalism, geopoliticians, incapabilities, isentropically, micropulsation, misapplication, municipalities, neoplasticisms, neoplasticists, noncapitalists, nonpoliticians, nonspecialists, paralinguistic, pertinaciously, pinealectomies, plasticization, postganglionic, principalities, provincialists, quintuplicates, reapplications, recompilations, reduplications, republications, sextuplicating, simplification, specialisation, specialization, ultraprecision.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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