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dapivirine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dapivirine
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An antiretroviral drug 4-{[4-(mesitylamino)-2-pyrimidinyl]amino}benzonitrile used to prevent HIV infection in women.

Uncountable

Etymology

From [Term?] + -virine (“nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

DPV (alternative, initialism)

Questions

What does dapivirine mean?
An antiretroviral drug 4-{[4-(mesitylamino)-2-pyrimidinyl]amino}benzonitrile used to prevent HIV infection in women.
Where does dapivirine come from?
From [Term?] + -virine (“nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor”).

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