busulfan

[ byoo-suhl-fuhn ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a potent cytotoxic substance, C6H14O6S2, used in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia.

Origin of busulfan

1
1955–60; bu(tanediol dimethane)sulf(onate) its chemical name + -an perhaps originally variant of -ane

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