Dipivoxil
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Applied to a diester pivoxil prodrug of adefovir. not-comparable
"I joined Gilead Sciences in 1990, and by 1999 we were in the final stage of about five or six years of work in creating the drug adefovir dipivoxil to treat H.I.V. The drug wasn’t approved by the F.D.A. for H.I.V. because the data showed evidence of kidney toxicity."
Example
More examples"I joined Gilead Sciences in 1990, and by 1999 we were in the final stage of about five or six years of work in creating the drug adefovir dipivoxil to treat H.I.V. The drug wasn’t approved by the F.D.A. for H.I.V. because the data showed evidence of kidney toxicity."
Etymology
From di- + pivoxil.
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