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carcinostatic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
car-ci-no-s-tat-ic
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That stops, or slows, the growth of a cancer

noun

Any drug or other agent that has this effect

Etymology

From carcino- + -static.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more carcinostatic (comparative) most carcinostatic (superlative) carcinostatics (plural)

Questions

What does carcinostatic mean?
That stops, or slows, the growth of a cancer
Where does carcinostatic come from?
From carcino- + -static.

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