dipivoxil

English

Etymology

di- +‎ pivoxil

Adjective

dipivoxil (not comparable)

1. Applied to a diester pivoxil prodrug of adefovir.
   • 2009 October 11, Amy Zipkin, “On the Discovery Trail”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• adefovir dipivoxil