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tacrolimus

US/təˈkɹoʊ.lɪm.əs/

tacrolimus noun: an immunosuppressive drug obtained from Streptomyces tsukubaensis used mainly after organ transplantation.

tacrolimus: an immunosuppressive drug obtained from Streptomyces tsukubaensis used mainly after organ...
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Noun

tacrolimus (uncountable)

  1. An immunosuppressive drug obtained from Streptomyces tsukubaensis used mainly after organ transplantation.
    • Itoh, S. & Navia, M. A. Structure comparison of native and mutant human recombinant FKBP12 complexes with the immunosuppressant drug FK506 (tacrolimus) .2009 March 5, Kohsuke Inomata et al., “High-resolution multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of proteins in human cells”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7234, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    fujimycin, FK-506

Synonyms of tacrolimus

Origin of tacrolimus

From Translingual t(sukubaensis) + English (m)acrol(ide) + -imus (“immunosuppressant”).

Questions about tacrolimus

What does tacrolimus mean?
Tacrolimus means an immunosuppressive drug obtained from Streptomyces tsukubaensis used mainly after organ transplantation.
What part of speech is tacrolimus?
Tacrolimus is a noun.
How do you pronounce tacrolimus?
Tacrolimus is pronounced /təˈkɹoʊ.lɪm.əs/ (US).

Words near tacrolimus in the dictionary

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  5. tacrine
  6. tacrolimus
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  8. TACS
  9. tacsonia
  10. tacsonias
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