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Definition: Fluorouracil |
FluorouracilNoun1. An antimetabolite used to treat certain cancers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | A cancer drug which combined with levamisole increases survival by one-half in colon cancer patients who received the treatment for a year following surgery. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A pyrimidine analog that acts as an antineoplastic antimetabolite and also has immunosuppressant. It interferes with DNA synthesis by blocking the thymidylate synthetase conversion of deoxyuridylic acid to thymidylic acid. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Fluorouracil |
| Specialty definitions using "fluorouracil": dipyridamole ♦ eniluracil, ethynyluracil ♦ levamisole ♦ PALA ♦ S-1 ♦ Tegafur, triacetyluridine. (references) |
| 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 |
fluorouracil | 28 |
5 fluorouracil | 14 |
cream fluorouracil | 4 |
5 fluorouracil topical | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fluorouracil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | fluoruracil. (various references) | |
Dutch | fluoruracil, fluorouracilum. (various references) | |
Finnish | fluoriurasiili. (various references) | |
French | fluoro-uracile, fluorouracile, fluorouracil. (various references) | |
German | Fluoruracil, Fluorouracilum. (various references) | |
Italian | fluorouracilum, fluorouracile. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uorouracilflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fluorouracilo. (various references) | |
Spanish | fluoruracil, fluorouracilo. (various references) | |
Swedish | fluorouracil. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fluorouracil": fluorouracils. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-l-l-o-o-r-r-u-u" | |
-4 letters: colorful, furcular. | |
-5 letters: corolla, couloir, criollo, fluoric, furcula, locular. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-l-l-o-o-r-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: fluorouracils. | |
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