Taxol Definition

taksôl
noun
A substance, C47H51NO14, obtained from a small yew tree (Taxus brevifolia) of W North America, used in treating certain kinds of cancer.
Webster's New World

(pharmacology) Taxol, paclitaxel: a drug (a mitotic inhibit) used to kill dividing tumour cells.

Wiktionary
other
A trademark for the drug paclitaxel.
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Other Word Forms of Taxol

Noun

Singular:
taxol
Plural:
taxols

Origin of Taxol

  • Named by the researchers who isolated it from the bark of the Pacific yew in 1967, Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani, from the scientific Latin term Taxus (a genus name).

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  • See taxol.

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