Word.ws English Dictionary

infliximab

US/ɪnˈflɪk.sɪˌmæb/

infliximab noun: an immunosuppressive drug (trademark Remicade) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat the symptoms of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is a chimeric monoclonal antibody prepared from humans and mice that acts by binding to and blocking the activity of tumor necrosis factor.

Noun

infliximab (uncountable)

  1. An immunosuppressive drug (trademark Remicade) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat the symptoms of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is a chimeric monoclonal antibody prepared from humans and mice that acts by binding to and blocking the activity of tumor necrosis factor.

Origin of infliximab

From infl(ammatory) + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -ximab (“chimeric monoclonal antibody”).

Questions about infliximab

What does infliximab mean?
Infliximab means an immunosuppressive drug (trademark Remicade) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat the symptoms of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is a chimeric monoclonal antibody prepared from humans and mice that acts by binding to and blocking the activity of tumor necrosis factor.
What part of speech is infliximab?
Infliximab is a noun.
How do you pronounce infliximab?
Infliximab is pronounced /ɪnˈflɪk.sɪˌmæb/ (US).

Words near infliximab in the dictionary

  1. inflictments
  2. inflictor
  3. inflictors
  4. inflicts
  5. inflight
  6. infliximab
  7. inflood
  8. inflooded
  9. inflooding
  10. infloodings
  11. infloods

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: infliximab (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: “infliximab.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/infliximab. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.