Medical term:

vinblastine


vinblastine

 [vin-blas´tēn]
a vinca alkaloidantineoplastic agent that causes metaphase arrest during cell mitosis by damaging the mitotic spindles. It is used primarily in combination chemotherapy regimens for testicular carcinoma and Hodgkin's lymphomas, choriocarcinoma, breast carcinoma, and histiocytosis X. Available as vincristine sulfate, administered intravenously.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

vinblastine

(vĭn-blăs′tēn′)
n.
An alkaloid, C46H58N4O9, originally obtained from the Madagascar periwinkle and used in the form of its sulfate as an antineoplastic drug.
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M VAC

A chemotherapeutic regimen for advanced urothelial (bladder) cancer, which has a reported 36% response rate.
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vinblastine

Oncology An IV vinca alkaloid used with other agents to treat Hodgkin's disease, leukemia, and other lymphoproliferative disorders, KS, CAs Adverse effects BM toxicity, neuropathy
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

vinblastine

An anticancer drug used mainly in the treatment of HODGKIN'S DISEASE and other LYMPHOMAS. The drug is on the WHO official list. A brand name is Velbe.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

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