alkylating drug: Meaning and Definition of

al'kylating drug"

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— Pharm. Pharm.
  1. any of various potentially cytotoxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic substances: used therapeutically to destroy cells, esp. proliferating cancer cells.
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