cytotoxic
Lethal to cells
Cytotoxic means toxic to cells—capable of damaging or killing them.
The term appears most often in medicine, where cytotoxic drugs are used in chemotherapy to destroy cancer cells: cytotoxic agents, cytotoxic effects.
Cytotoxic T cells are immune cells that kill infected or abnormal cells.
The word combines Greek roots for cell and poison.
Agent destroying cells
- cytotoxicityHarmfulness to living cells
- toxicCapable of causing harm
- poisonousCapable of causing death
- lethalCausing or capable of death
hazardous · carcinogenic · teratogenic · hepatotoxic · nephrotoxic · neurotoxic · LD50 · toxicity
Programmed cell death
Cancer medicine specialty
- methotrexateAntifolate chemotherapy agent
- alkylatingAttaching carbon groups
- platinum-basedIncorporating element 78
- adjuvantImmunity-boosting additive
remission · tumor · carcinoma · neoplasm · metastasis
Thymus-matured immune lymphocytes
- lymphocytesAdaptive immunity cells
- cytokinesImmune signaling proteins
- interferonImmune response protein
- immunosuppressionReduced bodily defense activation
cytotoxin
Agent destroying cells
- cytotoxicityHarmfulness to living cells
- toxicCapable of causing harm
- poisonousCapable of causing death
lethal · hazardous · carcinogenic · teratogenic · hepatotoxic · nephrotoxic · neurotoxic · LD50 · toxicity · ricin
apoptosis
Programmed cell death
oncology
Cancer medicine specialty
- methotrexateAntifolate chemotherapy agent
- alkylatingAttaching carbon groups
- platinum-basedIncorporating element 78
adjuvant · remission · tumor · carcinoma · neoplasm · metastasis
T-cells
Thymus-matured immune lymphocytes
- lymphocytesAdaptive immunity cells
- cytokinesImmune signaling proteins
- interferonImmune response protein
monoclonal
From single ancestor cell
- ADCMilitary personal assistant
- chemotherapyinfusion, cycle, cycles, regimen, dose
- cyto- wordscytoplasm, cytology, cytoskeleton, cytosol, cytoplasmic
- Danger Levelsdanger, high risk, high-risk, low risk, critical
- Drug Traitsaddictive, potent, toxic, sedative, narcotic
- healing effectstherapeutic, curative, restorative, healing, soothing
- InhibitorsCOX inhibitor, ACE inhibitor, rust inhibitor, SSRI
cytotoxictrophic
Relating to feeding
proliferative · nontoxic · protective · benign · biocompatible
cytotoxicproliferative
Tending to increase rapidly
anabolic · regenerative · trophic · nutritive
cytotoxicneuroprotective
Guarding neurons from harm
cardioprotective · regenerative · restorative · healing · reparative