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Taxol

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈtæksɒl/
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noun

Meaning 1

Taxol, paclitaxel: a drug (a mitotic inhibitor) used to kill dividing tumour cells.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences

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noun

Meaning 2

A taxane, C47H51NO14, used to treat cancer; Taxol.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: chemistry, medicine, natural-sciences, pharmacology, physical-sciences, sciences

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History

Etymology

See taxol.

From Latin taxus (“yew”) + -ol. Named by the researchers who isolated it from the bark of the Pacific yew in 1967, Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani, from the scientific Latin term Taxus (a genus name).