(pharmacology, uncountable) A platinum-containing antineoplastic drug cis-diamminedichloro-platinum(II) (Cl₂H₆N₂Pt) that is cytotoxic and is used especially in the treatment of testicular and ovarian tumors and advanced bladder cancer.

plural of cisplatin

Synonym of Cisplatina

(pharmacology, oncology) cisplatin

The former Cisplatina Province or Cisplatine Province (Província Cisplatina), a province on this side of the River Plate (from the Brazilian perspective); it existed in the 1820s and was a focus of the Cisplatine War but then became part of what is now Uruguay.