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MICONAZOLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does miconazole mean?
• MICONAZOLE (noun)
The noun MICONAZOLE has 1 sense:
1. an antifungal agent usually administered in the form of a nitrate (trade name Monistat)
Familiarity information: MICONAZOLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An antifungal agent usually administered in the form of a nitrate (trade name Monistat)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
miconazole; Monistat
Hypernyms ("miconazole" is a kind of...):
antifungal; antifungal agent; antimycotic; antimycotic agent; fungicide (any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi)
Context examples
More research is needed before miconazole and clobetasol can be tested in multiple sclerosis clinical trials.
(Drugs that activate brain stem cells may reverse multiple sclerosis, NIH)
The nitrate salt form of miconazole, an antifungal synthetic derivative of imidazole and used in the treatment of candidal skin infections, Miconazole selectively affects the integrity of fungal cell membranes, high in ergosterol content and different in composition from mammalian cells membranes.
(Miconazole Nitrate, NCI Thesaurus)
The team found that two compounds in particular, miconazole (an antifungal) and clobetasol (a steroid), stimulated mouse and human OPCs into generating myelin-producing cells.
(Drugs that activate brain stem cells may reverse multiple sclerosis, NIH)
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