dacarbazine

[ duh-kahr-buh-zeen ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C6H10N6O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.

Origin of dacarbazine

1
First recorded in 1960–65; contraction and rearrangement of the chemical name

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