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taxol Definition

taxol (taksôl)

noun

a substance, CHNO, obtained from a small yew tree (Taxus brevifolia) of W North America, used in treating certain kinds of cancer

Etymology: < taxonomic name of the tree

taxol Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • produce: Further reactions were then carried out to produce the final product taxol.
  • provide: It would take six 100-year old trees to provide enough taxol to treat just one patient.
  • synthesize: These reactions outline the general route that Holton employed to synthesize taxol.
  • make: Such a novel mode of action was believed to make taxol a prototype for a new class of anticancer drugs.

Adjective modifier

  • enough: A immense problem is the fact that it needs the inner bark of six trees to gather enough Taxol to treat one patient!
  • concurrent: In group 2, prospectively analyzed, were 14 patients treated with fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy and concurrent Taxol.

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