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cabamiquine

cabamiquine noun: an antimalarial medication (still investigational as of 2026) that inhibits the protist Plasmodium falciparum, thus relieving or preventing malaria.

Noun

cabamiquine (uncountable)

  1. An antimalarial medication (still investigational as of 2026) that inhibits the protist Plasmodium falciparum, thus relieving or preventing malaria.

Origin of cabamiquine

Since 2022; named according to the combining form rules of the INN (international nonproprietary name) system, from caba + mi + -quine (quinoline derivative), where the caba and mi syllables (and many others like them) are conventional in the INN system for referring to certain molecules or functional groups thereof.

Questions about cabamiquine

What does cabamiquine mean?
Cabamiquine means an antimalarial medication (still investigational as of 2026) that inhibits the protist Plasmodium falciparum, thus relieving or preventing malaria.
What part of speech is cabamiquine?
Cabamiquine is a noun.

Words near cabamiquine in the dictionary

  1. caballo
  2. caballoid
  3. Cabalquinto
  4. cabals
  5. cabalzarite
  6. cabamiquine
  7. caban
  8. cabana
  9. cabana boy
  10. cabana boys
  11. cabana set

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