See Also: fluorouracil(medicine)
Fluorouracil(health)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
symptomatic(dictionary)
symptomatic(dictionary)
Symptomatic(medicine)
symptomatic fever(medicine)
symptomatic tetany(medicine)
symptomatic epilepsy(medicine)
symptomatic pruritus(medicine)

symptomatic neuralgia (medicine) and Fluorouracil (health)


symptomatic neuralgia (medicine)


symptomatic neuralgia
Neuralgia occurring as a symptom of some local or systemic disease not involving primarily nerve structures.


Fluorouracil (health)


A much-used anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called antimetabolites. Full name: 5-fluorouracil. Abbreviation: 5-FU. 5-FU is a pyrimidine antagonist. 5-FU is similar in structure to the pyrimidine base thymine and functions to inhibit DNA synthesis both by blocking the formation of normal pyrimidine nucleotides via both enzyme inhibition and by interfering with DNA synthesis after incorporation into a growing DNA molecule. 5-FU is also able to block the production of RNA and thereby induce cell death. 5-FU affects the processing of messenger RNA (mRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), and small nuclear RNA (snRNA). 5-FU may also inhibit cell growth is through its ability to prevent the synthesis of thymine nucleotides from uracil nucleotides.