aromatase inhibitor

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noun

any of a class of drugs that inhibit the action of aromatase: used in the treatment of breast and ovarian cancer

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Words nearby aromatase inhibitor

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How to use aromatase inhibitor in a sentence

It has nothing to do with aroma; the word refers to the enzyme aromatase.
The Super Bowl May Harm Your Masculinity|Arthur De Vany|February 3, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The character in this case is an inhibitor of tail development.
Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl|Charles Benedict Davenport
Such birds being heterozygous for the inhibitor factor, should be whites showing some coloured "ticks."
Mendelism|Reginald Crundall Punnett
Probably we ought to regard the beardless as a bearded wheat in which there is an inhibitor that stops the beard from growing.
Mendelism|Reginald Crundall Punnett

The Silky is pure for the pigmentation factor, but does not contain the inhibitor factor.
Mendelism|Reginald Crundall Punnett
On account of this weakness of the inhibitor in the germ-plasm of No. 117 that inhibitor is rarely fully activated.
Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl|Charles Benedict Davenport

Medical definitions for aromatase inhibitor

aromatase inhibitor

A drug that inhibits tumor growth, especially breast cancer, by inhibiting the enzyme aromatase and thereby lowering estrogen levels in the blood or in tumor tissues.