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perifosine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
per-i-fo-s-ine
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An experimental alkylphospholipid anticancer drug.

Uncountable

Etymology

From (pi)peri(dine) + -fosine (“cytostatic”).

Usage

Questions

What does perifosine mean?
An experimental alkylphospholipid anticancer drug.
Where does perifosine come from?
From (pi)peri(dine) + -fosine (“cytostatic”).

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