asunaprevir

English

Etymology

From [Term?] +‎ -sun- (after the chemist Li-Qiang Sun[1])[Term?] +‎ -previr (“hepatitis C virus protease inhibitor”).

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Noun

asunaprevir (uncountable)

  1. (pharmacology) An experimental drug candidate for the treatment of hepatitis C.

References

  1. ^ Gurudas Khilnani, Ajeet Kumar Khilnani, Rekha Thaddanee (2014), “Semantics of drug nomenclature”, in National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy & Pharmacology‎[1], volume 4, number 1, page 96
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