acyklowir

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English aciclovir. First attested in 1980.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.t͡sɨˈklɔ.vir/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvir
  • Syllabification: a‧cy‧klo‧wir

Noun

acyklowir m inan

  1. (pharmacology) aciclovir (a cyclic synthetic nucleoside C8H11N5O3 used as an antiviral drug (trademarks Avirax, Zovirax) chiefly in the treatment of chicken pox, shingles, the genital form of herpes simplex, and AIDS)

Declension

References

  1. Polski tygodnik lekarski (in Polish), volume 35, 1980, page 1244

Further reading

  • acyklowir in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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