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ALKALATING AGENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alkalating agent mean?
• ALKALATING AGENT (noun)
The noun ALKALATING AGENT has 1 sense:
1. an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer
Familiarity information: ALKALATING AGENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("alkalating agent" is a kind of...):
antineoplastic; antineoplastic drug; cancer drug (any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alkalating agent"):
chlorambucil; Leukeran (an alkalating agent (trade name Leukeran) used to treat some kinds of cancer)
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