Meanings
noungemcitabine (uncountable)
- uncountablemedicineA particular drug used in chemotherapy.
In the winter, we had switched to a new drug called gemcitabine, or Gemzar.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 154
Origin
From [Term?] + -citabine (“cytarabine or azacytidine derivative”).
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