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bortezomib

/bɔɹˈtɛzoʊmɪb/noun

bortezomib is a noun meaning “A proteasome inhibitor used in cancer treatment and chemotherapy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-O-R-T-E-Z-O-M-I-B, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does bortezomib mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A proteasome inhibitor used in cancer treatment and chemotherapy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce bortezomib?

  • US /bɔɹˈtɛzoʊmɪb/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is bortezomib?

Bortezomib appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you abbreviate bortezomib?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of bortezomib: BTD.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).