See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
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lichen annularis(medicine)
lichen planopilaris(medicine)

topotecan (medicine) and lichen (oh)


topotecan (medicine)


topotecan
<drug, oncology> This alkaloid chemotherapy drug is a derivative of the drug camptothecin, which was originally isolated from a Chinese tree, Camptotheca acuminata but has also been found in the nothapodytes tree (Nothapodytes foetida).Topotecan is a DNA topoisomerase I inhibitor and is used to treat advanced ovarian cancer.


lichen (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: Greek leichen]
a grey, green, or yellow plant that spreads over the surface of stones and trees
-see also moss moss