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EPIRUBICIN

Specialty Definition: EPIRUBICIN

Domain	Definition
Health	An anthracycline antibiotic which is the 4'-epi-isomer of doxorubicin. The compound exerts its antitumor effects by interference with the synthesis and function of DNA. Clinical studies indicate activity in breast cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, ovarian cancer, soft-tissue sarcomas, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, small-cell lung cancer and acute leukemia. It is equal in activity to doxorubicin but exhibits less acute toxicities and less cardiotoxicity. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: EPIRUBICIN

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Anthracyclines (such as doxorubicin and epirubicin) have been used as components of adjuvant polychemotherapy for breast cancer. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: EPIRUBICIN

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
epirubicin	30
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: EPIRUBICIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-i-i-n-p-r-u"
	-3 letters: brucine, ripieni.
	-4 letters: brucin, burnie, euripi, incubi, irenic, pincer, pinier, prince, punier, purine, unripe.
	-5 letters: brine, bruin, burin, cripe, cuber, curie, icier, incur, inure, nicer, price, prune, pubic, purin, repin, ricin, ripen, runic, unrip, ureic, urine.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-i-i-n-p-r-u"
	+5 letters: republicanizing.
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Alternative Orthography: EPIRUBICIN

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 50 49 52 55 42 49 43 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01010000 01001001 01010010 01010101 01000010 01001001 01000011 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#80 &#73 &#82 &#85 &#66 &#73 &#67 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0050 0049 0052 0055 0042 0049 0043 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39504352553643374348

INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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