NOUN
- small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood
How To Use Pacific yew In A Sentence
- In this century these compounds have provided the basis of many common drugs including aspirin which comes from willow bark, and taxol, an ovarian cancer treatment, derived from the pacific yew.
- Examples include taxol from the Pacific yew, curare from a group of South American shrubs, and aspirin, from the bark of willow trees.
- The widely used anticancer drug was derived from the Pacific yew, a tree found in temperate rain forests.
- Heralded as a breakthrough treatment for breast and ovarian cancer, taxol is found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree.
- An extract of the bark of the Pacific yew known as taxol has been found to have cancer-fighting properties, particularly with ovarian cancer. Is A Tree Worth A Life?
- After all, aspirin was originally derived from willow bark, and the anticancer chemotherapeutic agent Taxol was derived from the bark of the Pacific yew tree. The Autoimmune Epidemic
