Vincristine

Definition: Vincristine

Vincristine

Noun

1. Periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Oncovin); used to treat cancer of the lymphatic system.

Specialty Definitions: Vincristine

Domain	Definitions
Health	An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of plant drugs called vinca alkaloids. (references)
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Synonym: Vincristine

Synonym: Oncovin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Vincristine

Specialty definitions using "vincristine": Tubulin. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Vincristine

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Azathioprine, penicillamine, chlorambucil, vincristine sulfate, and colchicine have been used in a few patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. (references)
		In the NSABP study, a combination of 5-FU, methyl-CCNU, and vincristine is significantly better than surgery alone but local failure remains high (23 percent). (references)
		Other drugs such as vincristine, azathioprine (Imuran), Danazol, cyclophosphamide, and cyclosporine are prescribed for patients only in the severe case where other treatments have not shown benefit since these drugs have potentially harmful side effects. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Vincristine

"Vincristine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vincristine" is used about 2 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)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vincristine

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
vincristine	44
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Modern Translations: Vincristine

Language		Translations for "vincristine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		vinkristin, vincristin. (various references)

Dutch		vincristine. (various references)

Finnish		vinkristiini. (various references)

French		vincristine, Oncovin. (various references)

German		Vincristin. (various references)

Greek		βινκριστίνη. (various references)

Italian		vincristina. (various references)

Pig Latin		incristinevay

Portuguese		vincristina. (various references)

Spanish		vincristina. (various references)

Swedish		vinkristin. (various references)
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Derivations: Vincristine

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vincristine": vincristines. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Vincristine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-i-n-n-r-s-t-v"
	-2 letters: citrinins, intrinsic.
	-3 letters: cinerins, citrines, citrinin, crinites, incisive, inciters, inviters, veristic, vintners, vitrines.
	-4 letters: cinerin, cistern, citrine, citrins, cretins, crinite, eristic, inciter, incites, interns, intines, invents, inverts, inviter, invites, irenics, neritic, revisit, sericin, striven, tinners, tinnier, viniest, vintner, visiter, vitrics, vitrine.
	-5 letters: citers, cities, citrin, civets, civies, cretin, estrin, evicts, iciest, incest, incise, incite.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-i-n-n-r-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: vincristines.
	+4 letters: noncreativities, nonrelativistic.
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