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pentamidine Definition


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pentamidine
noun
    1. pharmacol.
      A drug first used to combat tropical diseases such as sleeping sickness, later found effective against a form of pneumonia common in AIDS patients.
Etymology: 1940s: from pentane + amide + -ine2.



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