dipivoxil

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adjective

Applied to a diester pivoxil prodrug of adefovir.

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Meanings

adjectivedipivoxil (not comparable)
  1. not comparableApplied to a diester pivoxil prodrug of adefovir.

    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.

    2009 October 11, Amy Zipkin, “On the Discovery Trail”, in New York Times

Origin

From di- + pivoxil.

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APA

dipivoxil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dipivoxil

MLA

“dipivoxil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dipivoxil. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dipivoxil,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dipivoxil.

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