RITONAVIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ritonavir mean? 

• RITONAVIR (noun)
  The noun RITONAVIR has 1 sense:

1. a protease inhibitor (trade name Norvir) used in treating HIV

  Familiarity information: RITONAVIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RITONAVIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A protease inhibitor (trade name Norvir) used in treating HIV

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Norvir; ritonavir

Hypernyms ("ritonavir" is a kind of...):

PI; protease inhibitor (an antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs)

 Context examples 

A drug used with another drug, ritonavir, to treat patients who are infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) and have been treated with other anti-HIV drugs.

(Aptivus, NCI Dictionary)

Lopinavir/ritonavir blocks the ability of HIV to make copies of itself and may help other anticancer drugs work better or may block the growth of cancer cells.

(Lopinavir/ritonavir, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used with another drug, called ritonavir, to treat infection with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS).

(Lopinavir, NCI Dictionary)

Lopinavir is less affected by binding to serum proteins than the structurally-related drug ritonavir.

(Lopinavir, NCI Thesaurus)

Ritonavir blocks the breakdown of lopinavir.

(Kaletra, NCI Dictionary)

The ritonavir in the combination drug increases the concentration and biological half-life of lopinavir but is not present in sufficient concentration to act as a protease inhibitor.

(Lopinavir/ritonavir, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called ritonavir.

(Norvir, NCI Dictionary)

Lopinavir/ritonavir is a type of anti-HIV agent and a type of protease inhibitor.

(Lopinavir/ritonavir, NCI Dictionary)

A combination of the drugs ritonavir and lopinavir.

(Kaletra, NCI Dictionary)

A fixed combination of two protease inhibitors, lopinavir and ritonavir, used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

(Lopinavir/ritonavir, NCI Thesaurus)