Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An alkaloid, C46H58N4O9, obtained from the Madagascar periwinkle and used as an antineoplastic drug.
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- noun A particular
drug used inchemotherapy .
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- noun periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For the past decade, a modified chemotherapy regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone (COPP), together with adriamycin, bleomycin and vinblastine (ABV) has been used to treat patients with HD.
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—Cancer patient; presence of vinblastine and prednisone in significant quantities, traces of etoposide.
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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It turns out the pink-flowering plant has anticancer properties, and is now used to make the medicines vincristine and vinblastine.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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It turns out the pink-flowering plant has anticancer properties, and is now used to make the medicines vincristine and vinblastine.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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On October 7, 1974, Cleland took the gamble: he enrolled as “patient zero” for BVP, the acronym for a new regimen containing bleomycin, vinblastine, and cisplatin abbreviated P for “platinum”.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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—Cancer patient; presence of vinblastine and prednisone in significant quantities, traces of etoposide.
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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Naturally occurring chemicals in obscure plants and animals have been spun into various life-saving drugs; perhaps the most famous is the rosy periwinkle, native only to Madagascar, from which we took the compounds vincristine and vinblastine to fight lymphoma and breast cancer.
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: The Crisis Nobody's Talking About 2010
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—Cancer patient; presence of vinblastine and prednisone in significant quantities, traces of etoposide.
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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—Cancer patient; presence of vinblastine and prednisone in significant quantities, traces of etoposide.
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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On October 7, 1974, Cleland took the gamble: he enrolled as “patient zero” for BVP, the acronym for a new regimen containing bleomycin, vinblastine, and cisplatin abbreviated P for “platinum”.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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