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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CCNU | English | Cyclohexyl-chloroethyl-nitroso-urea | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It also causes some of the side effects that can accompany chemotherapy — such as skin reactions, hair loss, or digestive problems — because a high proportion of these normal cell types are also growing and dividing at any given time. The drugs most commonly used for CNS tumors are known by the initials BCNU (sometimes called carmustine) and CCNU (or lomustine). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-n-u" | |
-2 letters: nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-n-u" | |
+2 letters: concur, crunch, unchic, uncock. | |
+3 letters: account, coconut, concurs, concuss, conduce, conduct, council, craunch, crucian, crunchy, lucence, lucency, puccoon, scrunch, uncocks, uncomic. | |
+4 letters: accounts, accruing, accusant, accusing, acutance, caducean, capuchin, caruncle, chucking, cincture, clucking, cocoanut, coconuts, conclude, conduced, conducer, conduces, conducts, conjunct, couchant, couching, councils, crucians, crunched, cruncher, crunches, culicine, cuneatic, currency, duncical, ecumenic, glucinic, lucences, nuclidic, occupant, puccoons, succinct, succinic, succinyl, uncatchy, unchancy, unchicly, unchurch, unclench, unclinch, uncocked, unicycle, vulcanic, zucchini. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 43 4E 55 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. -.-. -. ..- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000011 01001110 01010101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C C N U |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0043 004E 0055 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37374855 |
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