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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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balloon angioplasty

locally recurrent cancer

diagnostic technique

lymphostatic elephantiasis

epidermal growth factor

Neupogen

athymic nude mouse

yttrium Y 90-DOTA anti-CEA monoclonal antibody M5A

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lisocabtagene maraleucel

Ansaid

proglumide

zirconium Zr 89-TAK-164

Mirasol-treated allogeneic platelets

mRNA-based personalized cancer vaccine mRNA-4157

nalbuphine

narlumosbart

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founder mutation

sebaceoma

heterogeneity logarithm of the odds score

MGPT

sister chromatid exchange

germline variant

WES

clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential

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