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tofacitinib

tofacitinib noun: a medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ulcerative colitis.

Noun

tofacitinib (uncountable)

  1. A medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ulcerative colitis.
    • Tofacitinib was the first jakinib to be approved for the treatment of a rheumatic disease, specifically for patients with RA with an incomplete response to a conventional synthetic DMARD (csDMARD), either as tofacitinib monotherapy or in combination with a csDMARD (7-11). Subsequently, tofacitinib...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 &...
    Synonyms:
    tasocitinib

Synonyms of tofacitinib

Questions about tofacitinib

What does tofacitinib mean?
Tofacitinib means a medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ulcerative colitis.
What part of speech is tofacitinib?
Tofacitinib is a noun.

Words near tofacitinib in the dictionary

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  3. toeyer
  4. toeyest
  5. TOF
  6. tofacitinib
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  8. tofalls
  9. Tofamna
  10. Tofana
  11. Tofanma

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