elspar

1. 1.

   antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia

   Synonymsasparaginase

   Broaderantineoplastic

   trademark

Other forms of elspar

plural

elspars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about elspar

What does elspar mean?

elspar means "antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia".

How many syllables are in elspar?

elspar has 2 syllables: el-spar. The stress falls on "el".

What is another word for elspar?

Close synonyms include asparaginase. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elspar a common word?

elspar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.