chymopapain
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chymopapain
Example Sentences
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So he referred himself to Dr. Ian Macnab at Toronto's Wellesley Hospital, who injected him with chymopapain last year.
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As he puts it: "Faced with the choice of surgery or chymopapain, I decided to put my back where my mouth was."
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The treatment: injection of chymopapain, a substance derived from the tropical papaya fruit.
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The dispute may some day be settled when a study pitting chymopapain against two placebos is completed at a number of U.S. medical centers.
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From 1964 until 1978 more than 15,000 patients had chymopapain injected into their discs in FDA-approved experiments.
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