ranibizumab
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Etymology edit
From [Term?] + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
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Noun edit
ranibizumab (uncountable)
- (pharmacology) A monoclonal antibody fragment derived from the same parent murine antibody as bevacizumab, used as an antiangiogenic.
- 2007 January 27, Andrew Pollack, “Eye Drug Might Raise Risk of Stroke, Genentech Says”, in New York Times[1]:
- Lucentis, also called ranibizumab, is approved to treat age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.