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PACLITAXEL

Specialty Definition: PACLITAXEL

DomainDefinition

Health

Antineoplastic agent isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, Taxus brevifolia. Paclitaxel stabilizes microtubules in their polymerized form and thus mimics the action of the proto-oncogene proteins c-mos. (references)

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

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Crosswords: PACLITAXEL

Non-English Usage: "PACLITAXEL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (paclitaxel).

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Commercial Usage: PACLITAXEL

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: PACLITAXEL

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In addition, the ideal dose and schedule of paclitaxel must be evaluated in clinical trials. (references)

The combination of platinum compounds and paclitaxel should be further investigated in earlier stage disease. (references)

Paclitaxel is currently the most active single agent for treatment of relapsed ovarian cancer even in patients refractory to platinum. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: PACLITAXEL

"PACLITAXEL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "PACLITAXEL" 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 (base form)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: PACLITAXEL

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

paclitaxel

86

paclitaxel taxanes taxol

9

paclitaxel taxol

2

paclitaxel stent

2

joint paclitaxel

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

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Modern Translation: PACLITAXEL

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

Danish

  

paclitaxel. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

paclitaxel, Taxol (Taxol). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

paklitakseli. (various references)

   

French

  

paclitaxel, Taxol. (various references)

   

German

  

Paclitaxel, Taxol (Taxol). (various references)

   

Italian

  

paclitaxel (Taxol), taxol (Taxol). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aclitaxelpay

   

Portuguese

  

paclitaxel. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

paclitaxel (Taxol), taxol (Taxol). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

paklitaxel. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PACLITAXEL

Derivations

Words beginning with "PACLITAXEL": paclitaxels. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: PACLITAXEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-l-p-t-x"

-2 letters: palliate.

-3 letters: axillae, capital, lacteal, lexical, patella, placate, plicate.

-4 letters: acetal, aecial, alexia, apical, aplite, ataxic, atelic, axilla, callet, capita, caplet, epical, exacta, laical, lexica, paella, palace, palate, paleal, pallet, pallia, placet, plaice, plexal, plicae, plical, taille, telial.

-5 letters: aceta, aecia, alate, apace, axial, axile, axite, calix, calla, cella, celli, clapt, cleat, clept, clipt.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-l-p-t-x"
 

+1 letter: paclitaxels.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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