• (dnr) Commonly used abbreviation for do-not-resuscitate order, a legal document that tells health professionals not to revive a person if his or her heart or breathing stops.
  Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
  Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
• A very toxic anthracycline aminoglycoside antineoplastic isolated from Streptomyces peucetius and others, used in treatment of LEUKEMIA and other NEOPLASMS.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• An anthracycline antineoplastic antibiotic with therapeutic effects similar to those of doxorubicin. Daunorubicin exhibits cytotoxic activity through topoisomerase-mediated interaction with DNA, thereby inhibiting DNA replication and repair and RNA and protein synthesis.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Anthracycline antibiotic produced by Streptomyces coeruleorubidus or Streptomyces peucetius and used as an antineoplastic.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• The active ingredient in a drug used to treat acute leukemias and some other types of cancer. It blocks a certain enzyme needed for cell division and DNA repair, and it may kill cancer cells. It is a type of anthracycline antibiotic and a type of topoisomerase inhibitor.
  NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021