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CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

Specialty Definition: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

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Health

Precursor of an alkylating nitrogen mustard antineoplastic and immunosuppressive agent that must be activated in the liver to form the active aldophosphamide. It is used in the treatment of lymphomas, leukemias, etc. Its side effect, alopecia, has been made use of in defleecing sheep. Cyclophosphamide may also cause sterility, birth defects, mutations, and cancer. (references)

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

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Synonym: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

Synonym by domain: cy (chemistry).

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Crosswords: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

Specialty definitions using "CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE": Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B1IfosfamideMesna. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

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Books

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

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Health

The agents most frequently used are cyclophosphamide, chlorambucil, and cyclosporine. (references)

For others, treatment generally consists of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) or cyclophosphamide. (references)

Data from mature randomized clinical trials have indicated that the combination of carboplatin and cyclophosphamide is effective therapy. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

"CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE" is used about 11 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)90.91%10111,207
Lexical Verb (infinitive)9.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%11N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

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

cyclophosphamide

64

cyclophosphamide gravis myasthenia

2

cyclophosphamide scleroderma

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

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Modern Translation: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

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

Danish

  

cyclophosphamid. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

cyclophosphamidum, cyclofosfamide. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

syklofosfamidi. (various references)

   

French

  

cyclophosphamide, Endoxan. (various references)

   

German

  

Cyclophosphamidum, Cyclophosphamid, CPA, Zyklophosphamid. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cyclophosphamidum, ciclofosfamide. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yclophosphamidecay

   

Portuguese

  

ciclofosfamida. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ciclofosfamida. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

cyklofosfoamid, cyklofosfamid. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

Derivations

Words beginning with "CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE": cyclophosphamides. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-h-i-l-m-o-o-p-p-s-y"

-4 letters: accomplished.

-5 letters: cephalopods, cyclopedias.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-h-i-l-m-o-o-p-p-s-y"
 

+1 letter: cyclophosphamides.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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