FETICHISTIC
\fˌɛtɪkˈɪstɪk], \fˌɛtɪkˈɪstɪk], \f_ˌɛ_t_ɪ_k_ˈɪ_s_t_ɪ_k]\
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Of or pertaining to, or characterized by fetichism; abjectly superstitious. "Our resuscitated spirit was not a pagan philosopher nor a philosophizing pagan poet, but a man of the 15th century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of Epicurean levity and Fetichistic dread."-George Eliot.
By Daniel Lyons
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Platidiam
- An inorganic water-soluble platinum complex. After undergoing hydrolysis, it reacts DNA produce both intra interstrand crosslinks. These crosslinks appear to impair replication and transcription of DNA. The cytotoxicity cisplatin correlates with cellular arrest in G2 phase cell cycle.