acyklowir

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English aciclovir. First attested in 1980.

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

Declension of acyklowir

	singular
nominative	acyklowir
genitive	acyklowiru
dative	acyklowirowi
accusative	acyklowir
instrumental	acyklowirem
locative	acyklowirze
vocative	acyklowirze

Further reading

• acyklowir in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego