doxorubicin
Meaning of doxorubicin
noun
a bacterial antibiotic that is widely used to treat leukaemia and various other forms of cancer.
1970s: from deoxy- (in the sense ‘that has lost oxygen’) + Latin rubus ‘red’ + -mycin.
Information about doxorubicin
- It is a name.
- The plural form of doxorubicin is: doxorubicins.
- Languages in which doxorubicin is used:
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Hyphenation of doxorubicin
dox-oru-bicin
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- doxorubicin is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with doxorubicin
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