Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An alkaloid, C46H56N4O10, obtained from the Madagascar periwinkle and used as an antineoplastic drug for a variety of neoplasms.
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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 Oncovin); used to treat cancer of the lymphatic system
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The name vincristine comes from vinca, the Latin word for “bind.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The name vincristine comes from vinca, the Latin word for “bind.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The name vincristine comes from vinca, the Latin word for “bind.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The vincristine was a powerful anti-cancer drug which was going to be used for Johnny, a patient on the ward with nephroblastomaa malignant tumour of the kidney.
Consultant Care Wirdnam, Sharon 1996
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Every time I treat a cat for cancer with a drug called "vincristine" I am grateful to the shaman that discovered the plant and the pharmacy company scientists that refined it into a useful drug.
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Veterinarians Team With Mother Nature for Better Results Dr. Richard Palmquist 2010
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Every time I treat a cat for cancer with a drug called "vincristine" I am grateful to the shaman that discovered the plant and the pharmacy company scientists that refined it into a useful drug.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dr. Richard Palmquist 2010
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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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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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Yet, I was comforted when I discovered that one of these drugs, vincristine, was actually derived from Africa's rosy periwinkle.
Alliance for Global Conservation: Guest Post: Ethan Zohn - Saving the Hotbeds of Pharmaceutical Innovation Before They're Gone Alliance for Global Conservation 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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An alkaloid, C46H56N4O10·H2SO4, obtained from the leaves of a periwinkle (Vinca rosea) and used as a drug in the treatment of leukemia.
July 7, 2018