Word.ws English Dictionary

cinalukast

cinalukast noun: the compound (E)-4-[[3-(2-(4-cyclobutyl-2-thiazolyl)ethenyl)phenyl]amino]-2,2-diethyl-4-oxobutanoic acid that is used in the treatment of asthma.

Noun

cinalukast (uncountable)

  1. The compound (E)-4-[[3-(2-(4-cyclobutyl-2-thiazolyl)ethenyl)phenyl]amino]-2,2-diethyl-4-oxobutanoic acid that is used in the treatment of asthma
    • Using low scores for both R-enantiomer queries, the LBVS counter-screen ruled out exatecan acid, S-flunoxaprofen, gemfibrozil, cinalukast, fexofenadine, and tanomastat.2015 November 12, “Novel Activities of Select NSAID R-Enantiomers against Rac1 and Cdc42 GTPases”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of cinalukast

From [Term?] + -lukast (“leukotriene receptor antagonist”).

Questions about cinalukast

What does cinalukast mean?
Cinalukast means the compound (E)-4-[[3-(2-(4-cyclobutyl-2-thiazolyl)ethenyl)phenyl]amino]-2,2-diethyl-4-oxobutanoic acid that is used in the treatment of asthma.
What part of speech is cinalukast?
Cinalukast is a noun.

Words near cinalukast in the dictionary

  1. CIN
  2. cinA
  3. cinacalcet
  4. cinaciguat
  5. cinaedism
  6. cinalukast
  7. cinamolol
  8. cinamon
  9. cinamons
  10. cinanserin
  11. cinaroside

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cinalukast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cinalukast.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cinalukast. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.