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noun Pharmacology.

a drug that inhibits the action of protease, especially any of a class of antiviral drugs that prevent the cleavage and replication of HIV proteins.

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Words nearby protease inhibitor

prote-, protea, protean, Proteas, protease, protease inhibitor, protease inhibitors, protect, protectant, protected sex, protectee

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How to use protease inhibitor in a sentence

The most heralded one in the pipeline is Pfizer’s Paxlovid, a protease inhibitor — which means it blocks an enzyme needed for viral replication.
Omicron is here. What are your treatment options if you get Covid-19?|Kelsey Piper|December 20, 2021|Vox
Hydroxychloroquine and the protease inhibitors don’t work—but dexamethasone significantly reduces mortality among hospitalized patients.
COVID-19 could change clinical trials for the better|jakemeth|December 12, 2020|Fortune
For HIV, though, real therapy began only 18 years ago with the introduction of a class of drugs, the protease inhibitors.
Let’s Not Rush to Call the HIV Baby Findings a ‘Cure’|Kent Sepkowitz|March 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The character in this case is an inhibitor of tail development.
Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl|Charles Benedict Davenport

Such birds being heterozygous for the inhibitor factor, should be whites showing some coloured "ticks."
Mendelism|Reginald Crundall Punnett
Probably we ought to regard the beardless as a bearded wheat in which there is an inhibitor that stops the beard from growing.
Mendelism|Reginald Crundall Punnett
The Silky is pure for the pigmentation factor, but does not contain the inhibitor factor.
Mendelism|Reginald Crundall Punnett
The best-known example of this type of enzymes is the protease of yeast; but similar ones may be found in germinating seeds.
The Chemistry of Plant Life|Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

British Dictionary definitions for protease inhibitor

protease inhibitor

noun

any one of a class of antiviral drugs that impair the growth and replication of HIV by inhibiting the action of protease produced by the virus: used in the treatment of AIDS

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Medical definitions for protease inhibitor

protease inhibitor

An anti-HIV drug that blocks the action of the enzyme protease, which is needed for viral replication.