taxol

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

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).

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