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Definition: Anticancer |
AnticancerAdjective1. Used in the treatment of cancer; "anticancer drug"; "an antineoplastic effect". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: AnticancerSynonyms: antineoplastic (adj), antitumor (adj), antitumour (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Anticancer Drug Discovery InitiatiPS U.K. (medicine). |
Crosswords: Anticancer |
| English words defined with "anticancer": doxorubicin ♦ mitomycin, Mutamycin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "anticancer": anticancer antibiotics. (references) |
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 | Slide shows researcher using electron spin resonance spectroscopy to examine the role of free radicals in promoting anticancer drug activity as well as in the development of drug resistance. Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer). |  | Seen is a young oriental male technician performing drug synthesis. He is seen in a lab setting, wearing a lab coat. He is pouring and spooning chemicals into a long tube where they are mixed and later placed in the beaker at the bottom. NCI plays a leading role in the development of anticancer drugs. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Shown is a mixer containing fermentation broth of soil microorganisms that make adriamycin. NCI plays an important role in the development of these anticancer drugs. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Chemotherapy is treatment with anticancer drugs. (references) | |
Generally, anticancer drugs affect cells that divide rapidly. (references) | ||
When anticancer drugs are given into the spinal fluid, nausea and vomiting may occur. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | Opportunities also exists for relaxin, rennin, clot-dissolving agents, insulin, interferons, interleukins and anticancer therapeutics, human growth hormones, erythropoietin, blood factors VIII & XI, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator, streptokinase tissue necrosis factor. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Anticancer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Anticancer" is used about 7 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "anticancer": anticancer antibiotics. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
anticancer research | 17 |
anticancer drug | 8 |
anticancer journal research | 6 |
anticancer | 5 |
anticancer inc | 4 |
anticancer res | 3 |
activity anticancer berry blue | 3 |
anticancer medicine | 3 |
anticancer microorganisms | 3 |
anticancer expert rev ther | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "anticancer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 抗癌. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 抗癌剤 (anticancer drug). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うが"ざい (anticancer drug). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | anticanceray противораковый. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Anticancer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: antiacne, Antonacci, Nicander. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anticancer" (pronounced a'ntī'ka"nser or a'ntē'ka"nser) |
| 5 | -k a" n s er | cancer. |
| 4 | -a" n s er | advancer, answer, dancer, enhancer, Lancer. |
| 3 | -n s er | announcer, balancer, biosensor, bouncer, censer, censor, condenser, cosponsor, denser, dispenser, freelancer, licenser, licensor, mincer, sensor, Spencer, sponsor. |
| 5 | -k a" n s er | cancer. |
| 4 | -a" n s er | advancer, answer, dancer, enhancer, Lancer. |
| 3 | -n s er | announcer, balancer, biosensor, bouncer, censer, censor, condenser, cosponsor, denser, dispenser, freelancer, licenser, licensor, mincer, sensor, Spencer, sponsor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: incarnate. | |
-2 letters: acentric, carcanet, carinate, craniate. | |
-3 letters: acarine, ancient, anticar, cannier, cantina, carinae, cateran, centric, ceratin, certain, creatin, entrain, narcein, tacrine. | |
-4 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, acinar, antiar, arcane, arctic, arnica, cancan, cancer, canine, canner, cannie, canter, cantic, carate, carina, carnet, carnie, catena, centai, centra, crania, cretic, cretin, enatic, encina, inaner, incant, innate, intern, narine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-n-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: anacreontic. | |
+2 letters: anacreontics, transoceanic. | |
+3 letters: incarcerating, incarceration, revaccinating, revaccination. | |
+4 letters: anticarcinogen, contraindicate, incarcerations, revaccinations. | |
+5 letters: anticarcinogens, contraindicated, contraindicates, countercampaign, necromantically, precancellation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6E 74 69 63 61 6E 63 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -. - .. -.-. .- -. -.-. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A n t i c a n c e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006E 0074 0069 0063 0061 006E 0063 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35808675696780697184 |
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