Term: mercaptopurine: a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia
Candidate hypernym: immunosuppressant: a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response → 1
Candidate hypernym: tarantella: a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons → 0
Candidate hypernym: collar blight: a disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: beardless iris: any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls) → 0
Candidate hypernym: phrenology: a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties → 0
Candidate hypernym: hen-of-the-woods: large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: close-quarter fighting: hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters → 0
Candidate hypernym: autonomic nervous system: the part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands → 0
Candidate hypernym: kamikaze: a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash → 0
Candidate hypernym: exclusive: a news report that is reported first by one news organization → 0
Candidate hypernym: solar halo: a luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of the sun; caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere → 0