Medication and Pharmacology Terms
Medicines, investigational drugs, drug classes, actions, and routes of administration. Browse definitions and meanings below.
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The drug arrives inactive and becomes a poison only inside organisms that live without oxygen, which is the source of its narrow aim.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of several types of cancer.
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Speed in and speed out is the point: it suits a procedure that lasts minutes, not a symptom that lasts months.
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A clear, tasteless liquid distilled from crude oil, used to soften skin and to slide stool through the bowel.
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One drug with two unrelated jobs: it shields the stomach lining from anti-inflammatory damage and it makes the uterus contract.
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A drug used to treat some types of testicular cancer.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of some leukemias and lymphomas.
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Mitomycin is an antitumor antibiotic that damages DNA to treat certain cancers and is also applied topically during some eye surgeries.
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Chemotherapy drugs that jam the machinery pulling chromosomes apart, so a dividing cell stalls partway through and dies.
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A drug used to treat advanced prostate cancer that does not respond to hormones, adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, and advanced or chronic multiple sclerosis.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of many types of cancer.
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A substance being studied as a treatment for atherosclerosis (a build-up of fat in the arteries).
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A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes and some types of leukemia.
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Three delivery routes, one purpose: putting a steroid exactly where the inflammation is so the rest of the body sees very little of it.
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Taken regularly to prevent symptoms rather than to relieve an attack, montelukast also carries a prominent warning about mood and behavior changes.
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A monoclonal antibody being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.
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Moxifloxacin is a broad spectrum antibiotic from the fluoroquinolone class, used to treat various bacterial infections.