polypill
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Medication that is a combination drug of at least four active ingredients; especially, one that is intended to be consumed widely, even by currently healthy individuals, as a means of preventive medicine.
noun
Medication that is a combination drug of at least four active ingredients; especially, one that is intended to be consumed widely, even by currently healthy individuals, as a means of preventive medicine.
Example Sentences
- "A polypill containing a beta-blocker, a mineralocorticoid antagonist, and an SGLT2 inhibitor produced a substantial improvement in compliance to guideline-directed medical therapy for heart failure along with measurable improvements in heart failure control, according to data from a randomized trial [the POLY-HF trial]. Compared with usual care, the polypill was associated with increases in adherence and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) as well as a reduction in hospitalizations over a 6-month period […] [The interviewed physicians] pointed out that most studies show less than half of heart failure patients on optimized doses of all guideline-directed medical therapy. It is not clear that a polypill is the only or best answer to this chronic problem, but Prabhakaran said POLY-HF supports the polypill as “an attractive option.” “These are particularly encouraging results while we wait for hard endpoint trials,” he said."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English pill English polypill From poly- + pill.
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
combopill
SPC