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cytotoxic

adjective/ˌsaɪtəʊˈtɒksɪk/

C1CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Toxic to cells, especially describing drugs that kill rapidly dividing malignant cells.

Conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy damages healthy dividing tissues as well as the tumour, hence its side effects.

Topic: Oncology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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