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RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiopharmaceutical mean? 

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL (noun)
  The noun RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL has 1 sense:

1. pharmaceutical consisting of a radioactive compound used in radiation therapyplay

  Familiarity information: RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pharmaceutical consisting of a radioactive compound used in radiation therapy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("radiopharmaceutical" is a kind of...):

pharmaceutic; pharmaceutical (drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment)


 Context examples 


A radiopharmaceutical containing the dopamine D2/D3 receptor agonist iodobenzamide (IBZM) labeled with the radionuclide iodine I 123 with dopamine receptor-binding and radioisotopic activities.

(Iodine I 123 Iodobenzamide, NCI Thesaurus)

A folate receptor-targeting radiopharmaceutical consisting of a folate-containing tetrapeptide chelator to which technetium Tc 99m is linked.

(Folate Receptor-Targeted Technetium Tc-99m EC20, NCI Thesaurus)

A radiopharmaceutical consisting of a sulfonamide covalently attached to the positron-emitting isotope fluorine F 18 with CA-IX-binding and radioisotopic activities.

(Fluorine F 18-VM4-037, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic radiopharmaceutical in which human serum albumin (HSA) is radiolabelled with iodine 131.

(Iodinated I-131 Serum Albumin, NCI Thesaurus)

A radioactive salt that is used as a reagent in the preparation of indium 111-labeled radiopharmaceuticals.

(Indium In-111 Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Indium In 111 ibritumomab tiuxetan is a type of radiopharmaceutical.

(indium In 111 ibritumomab tiuxetan, NCI Dictionary)

In 111 Zevalin is a type of radiopharmaceutical.

(In 111 Zevalin, NCI Dictionary)

In 111 ibritumomab tiuxetan is a type of radiopharmaceutical.

(In 111 ibritumomab tiuxetan, NCI Dictionary)

An anticancer drug belonging to a family of drugs called radiopharmaceuticals.

(indium In 111 pentetreotide, NCI Dictionary)

It is a type of radiopharmaceutical.

(fluorine F 18 EF5, NCI Dictionary)



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