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miglustat

miglustat noun: a drug used primarily to treat certain kinds of Gaucher's disease by inhibiting glucosylceramide synthase, an essential enzyme for the synthesis of most glycosphingolipids.

Noun

miglustat (uncountable)

  1. A drug used primarily to treat certain kinds of Gaucher's disease by inhibiting glucosylceramide synthase, an essential enzyme for the synthesis of most glycosphingolipids.

Origin of miglustat

From [Term?] + -stat (“enzyme inhibitor”).

Questions about miglustat

What does miglustat mean?
Miglustat means a drug used primarily to treat certain kinds of Gaucher's disease by inhibiting glucosylceramide synthase, an essential enzyme for the synthesis of most glycosphingolipids.
What part of speech is miglustat?
Miglustat is a noun.

Words near miglustat in the dictionary

  1. Migliorelli
  2. Migliores
  3. miglios
  4. miglitol
  5. Miglos
  6. miglustat
  7. migmatise
  8. migmatised
  9. migmatite
  10. migmatites
  11. migmatitic

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