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Pronunciation: /zidovudine*/

zidovudine

Definition

A drug that inhibits the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. It is a type of systemic antiviral. Also called AZT.

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warm ischemia time

continuous hyperthermic peritoneal perfusion

prophylactic cranial irradiation

C-reactive protein

lymphoblastic lymphoma

osteomalacia

penicillin

electroacupuncture

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technetium Tc 99m-3PRGD2

anti-CD47/anti-PD-L1 bispecific antibody 6MW3211

allogeneic GM-CSF-secreting lethally irradiated whole melanoma cell vaccine

autologous anti-CD147 CAR T cells

microbiome SER-155

Metastat

ulipristal acetate

Ontak

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missense mutation

translation

tumor suppressor gene

heteroduplex analysis

genome-wide association study

allele

de novo variant

disease-causing mutation

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