Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inhibiting or suppressing cellular growth and multiplication.
- noun A cytostatic agent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biology) Having an inhibitory action on cell growth or cell division.
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- adjective Tending to
inhibit thegrowth andmultiplication ofcells . - noun Any substance which inhibits cell growth and multiplication.
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Examples
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The WHO guideline is that two out of these three signs, AND at least one minor sign, *in the absence of any other cause of immunosuppression such as cancer, cytostatic therapy, prolonged steroid therapy or malnutrition* are to be considered a sign of AIDS.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum - Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang EliRabett 2009
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Ayurvedic herbal drugs with possible cytostatic activity.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Ayurvedic herbal drugs with possible cytostatic activity.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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She works with all the mothers trying to teach them, to educate them, cooperating in health plans, in programs related to cytostatic tests -- not cytostatic, cytological
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Consistent with the established role of p53 in chemotherapy-induced cytotoxic/cytostatic effects, treatment with
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Nadine Rohwer et al. 2010
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Blic that at least 20 patients received cytostatic therapy, half of them without any need and the other half a double or even triple overdose.
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The extracts are usually prepared from eggs arrested in the metaphase of MII ( "cytostatic factor-arrested") and are immediately competent for spindle assembly experiments.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vincent Gache et al. 2010
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As the scientists report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the synthetic compound has the same anti-inflammatory and cytostatic activity as the natural version.
innovations-report 2010
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Research published by the University of Helsinki, Finland, indicates that cytostatic and radiation t ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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Research published by the University of Helsinki, Finland, indicates that cytostatic and radiation t ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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