Taxol

  1. Proper noun.  (pharmaceutical drug, trademark) A drug used to kill dividing tumour cells.
  2. Noun.  (context, chemistry) A taxane, C47H51NO14, used to treat cancer; also a proprietary name for paclitaxel (see Taxol).

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