fluorouracil
noun
(In full 5-fluorouracil) a fluorine-substituted derivative of uracil which inhibits DNA synthesis and is used as a chemotherapy drug in the treatment of cancer.
Origin
1950s.
- phosphoretted
- phosphoric
- phosphoric acid
- phosphoric anhydride
- phosphoric chloride
- phosphoriferous
- phosphorisation
- phosphorise
- phosphorised
- Phosphorist
- phosphorite
- phosphoritic
- phosphorization
- phosphorize
- phosphorized
- phosphormonoesterase
- phosphorocalcite
- phosphorochalcite
- phosphoroesslerite
- phosphorogenic
- phosphorograph
- phosphorolysis
- phosphorolytic
- phosphorolytically
- phosphoroscope