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taxol

/ˈtæksɒl/

taxol noun: a taxane, C₄₇H₅₁NO₁₄, used to treat cancer; Taxol.

Noun (1)

taxol (plural taxols)

  1. A taxane, C₄₇H₅₁NO₁₄, used to treat cancer; Taxol.
    • The powerful anti-cancer drug taxol is extracted from the leaves of the yew tree.2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 20

Noun (2) capitalized: Taxol

Taxol

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

Forms of taxol

pluraltaxols

Origin of taxol

From Latin taxus (“yew”) + -ol. 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).

See taxol.

Words formed from taxol

Questions about taxol

What does taxol mean?
Taxol means a taxane, C₄₇H₅₁NO₁₄, used to treat cancer; Taxol.
What part of speech is taxol?
Taxol is a noun.
How do you pronounce taxol?
Taxol is pronounced /ˈtæksɒl/.
What is the plural of taxol?
The plural of taxol is taxols.

Words near taxol in the dictionary

  1. taxodont
  2. taxogram
  3. taxograms
  4. taxoid
  5. taxoids
  6. taxol
  7. taxologer
  8. taxologers
  9. taxological
  10. taxologics
  11. taxologies

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