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dipivoxil

dipivoxil adjective: applied to a diester pivoxil prodrug of adefovir.

Adjective

dipivoxil (not comparable)

  1. Applied to a diester pivoxil prodrug of adefovir.
    • I joined Gilead Sciences in 1990, and by 1999 we were in the final stage of about five or six years of work in creating the drug adefovir dipivoxil to treat H.I.V. The drug wasn’t approved by the F.D.A. for H.I.V. because the data showed evidence of kidney toxicity.2009 October 11, Amy Zipkin, “On the Discovery Trail”, in New York Times

Origin of dipivoxil

From di- + pivoxil.

Words formed from dipivoxil

Questions about dipivoxil

What does dipivoxil mean?
Dipivoxil means applied to a diester pivoxil prodrug of adefovir.
What part of speech is dipivoxil?
Dipivoxil is an adjective.

Words near dipivoxil in the dictionary

  1. dipivaloyl
  2. dipivaloylketene
  3. dipivaloylketenes
  4. dipivefrin
  5. dipivefrine
  6. dipivoxil
  7. dipl-
  8. dipl.
  9. diplacanthid
  10. diplacusis
  11. diplae

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