Word.ws English Dictionary

hydroxytamoxifen

hydroxytamoxifen noun: a metabolite of tamoxifen; it is being considered as a therapy for breast cancer.

Noun

hydroxytamoxifen (countable and uncountable, plural hydroxytamoxifens)

  1. A metabolite of tamoxifen; it is being considered as a therapy for breast cancer.

Forms of hydroxytamoxifen

pluralhydroxytamoxifens

Origin of hydroxytamoxifen

From hydroxy- + tamoxifen.

Questions about hydroxytamoxifen

What does hydroxytamoxifen mean?
Hydroxytamoxifen means a metabolite of tamoxifen; it is being considered as a therapy for breast cancer.
What part of speech is hydroxytamoxifen?
Hydroxytamoxifen is a noun.
What is the plural of hydroxytamoxifen?
The plural of hydroxytamoxifen is hydroxytamoxifens.

Words near hydroxytamoxifen in the dictionary

  1. hydroxysuccinimide
  2. hydroxysulfosuccinimide
  3. hydroxysulfosuccinimides
  4. hydroxysultaine
  5. hydroxysultaines
  6. hydroxytamoxifen
  7. hydroxytamoxifens
  8. hydroxyterminated
  9. hydroxytestosterone
  10. hydroxytestosterones
  11. hydroxytetracaine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hydroxytamoxifen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hydroxytamoxifen.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hydroxytamoxifen. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.