LEUCOVORIN

Domain	Definition
Health	The active metabolite of folic acid. Leucovorin is used principally as its calcium salt as an antidote to folic acid antagonists which block the conversion of folic acid to folinic acid. (references)
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Non-Fiction Usage: LEUCOVORIN

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It is noteworthy to observe the high response rates in metastatic colon cancer with the use of 5-FU and leucovorin. (references)
		Issues that remain at high priority are the study of other modulators of 5-FU, which include leucovorin, phosphonacetyl-l-aspartate (PALA), and others. (references)
		We are optimistic about the likely effectiveness of combined modality therapy, but we recognize the need to study the effectiveness of combinations that do not include methyl-CCNU, such as 5-FU and leucovorin or related combinations in concert with radiotherapy for local control. (references)
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Usage Frequency: LEUCOVORIN

"LEUCOVORIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LEUCOVORIN" 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)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEUCOVORIN

Anagrams: LEUCOVORIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-o-r-u-v"
	-1 letter: involucre.
	-2 letters: culverin, unicolor.
	-3 letters: coenuri, coronel, corvine, couloir, incurve, loonier, orcinol, uncover, unvoice, violone.
	-4 letters: cineol, cloner, cloven, clover, coiler, coiner, colone, coloni, colour, colure, cooler, coolie, cornel, culver, enolic, leucin, louver, louvre, lucern, lunier, neroli, novice, nuclei, orcein, oriole, ovonic, recoil, recoin, renvoi, uncoil, uncool, unlive, unrove, unveil, velour, voicer.
	-5 letters: ceorl, cline.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-o-r-u-v"
	+2 letters: overclouding.
	+3 letters: cavernicolous.
	+4 letters: coevolutionary, macroevolution, microevolution.
	+5 letters: counterviolence, macroevolutions, microevolutions, overcultivation, overspeculation, uncontroversial.
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