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Floxuridine

Definition: Floxuridine

Floxuridine

Noun

1. Antineoplastic drug used to treat some cancers; can cause loss of hair.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definition: Floxuridine

DomainDefinition

Health

An antineoplastic antimetabolite that is metabolized to fluorouracil when administered by rapid injection; when administered by slow, continuous, intra-arterial infusion, it is converted to floxuridine monophosphate. It has been used to treat hepatic metastases of gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas and for palliation in malignant neoplasms of the liver and gastrointestinal tract. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Floxuridine

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.
 
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floxuridine

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Anagrams: Floxuridine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-i-l-n-o-r-u-x"

-3 letters: diolefin, flounder, fluoride, fluorine, infolder, unfoiled, unfolder, unrifled.

-4 letters: direful, dourine, flexion, flinder, floured, fluorid, fluorin, fluxion, fondler, founder, infidel, infield, infixed, neuroid, refound, roundel, unfired, unfixed, unified, unifier, unoiled, uridine.

-5 letters: dinero, dioxin, diuron, durion, elixir, enduro, enfold, finder, fixure, flexor, florid, florin, fluxed, foiled, foined, folder, fonder, fondle, fondue, fornix, fouled.

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Alternative Orthography: Floxuridine


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

46 6C 6F 78 75 72 69 64 69 6E 65

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)

01000110 01101100 01101111 01111000 01110101 01110010 01101001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 006C 006F 0078 0075 0072 0069 0064 0069 006E 0065

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

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

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