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peficitinib

peficitinib noun: a medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Noun

peficitinib (uncountable)

  1. A medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
    • Peficitinib, a pan-JAK inhibitor, is approved in Japan, Republic of Korea, and Taiwan for the treatment of RA in patients with an incomplete response to csDMARDs (19, 20). Tofacitinib, baricitinib, and peficitinib have shown clinical, functional, and radiographic efficacy, after failure of a...2021 December, Christine Liu, Jacqueline Kieltyka, Roy Fleischmann, Massimo Gadina, John J. O’Shea, “A Decade of JAK Inhibitors: What Have We Learned and What May Be the Future?”, in Arthritis &...

Questions about peficitinib

What does peficitinib mean?
Peficitinib means a medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
What part of speech is peficitinib?
Peficitinib is a noun.

Words near peficitinib in the dictionary

  1. PEF
  2. PEFC
  3. PEFCs
  4. Peffley
  5. Peffleys
  6. peficitinib
  7. pefloxacin
  8. pefurazoate
  9. peg
  10. peg away
  11. peg back

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