ANTIVIRAL DRUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antiviral drug mean? 

• ANTIVIRAL DRUG (noun)
  The noun ANTIVIRAL DRUG has 1 sense:

1. any drug that destroys viruses

  Familiarity information: ANTIVIRAL DRUG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIVIRAL DRUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any drug that destroys viruses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

antiviral; antiviral agent; antiviral drug

Hypernyms ("antiviral drug" is a kind of...):

medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antiviral drug"):

DDC; dideoxycytosine; zalcitabine; DDI; didanosine; dideoxyinosine (an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection)

interferon (an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus; inhibits replication of the virus)

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)

reverse transcriptase inhibitor (an antiviral drug that inhibits the action of reverse transcriptase in retroviruses such as HIV)

ribavirin; Virazole (an inhaled antiviral agent (trade name Virazole) that may be used to treat serious virus infections)

 Context examples 

ddhCTP appears to be "a completely novel drug scaffold" for designing antiviral drugs.

(Scientists Discover How Antiviral Gene Works, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Additionally, adjacent non-transfected cells are also killed by the activated antiviral drug, a phenomenon referred to as the bystander effect that occurs with this type of suicide-gene transfer technique.

(PA-1-STK Ovarian Carcinoma Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The outcome was similar to that of commonly used antiviral drugs but without those drugs’ toxic side effects.

(Allergy drug inhibits hepatitis C, NIH)

Treat infections with antibacterial, antifungal, antiparasite or antiviral drugs

(Infection Prophylaxis and Management, NCI Thesaurus)

Additionally, as a bystander effect, adjacent non-transfected cells may be killed by the activated antiviral drug.

(Ad5.SSTR/TK.RGD, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon immunoprophylactic adoptive cell therapy infusion with allogeneic cytomegalovirus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes, these CTLs may help reconstitute CMV-specific CTL responses in CMV-infected immunocompromised hosts after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant, thereby potentially preventing the occurrence of CMV viral disease or reducing the amount of antiviral drug therapy.

(Allogeneic Cytomegalovirus-Specific Cytotoxic T lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon transfection into malignant cells, this vaccine is capable of sensitizing tumor cells in response to an antiviral drug such as ganciclovir, which is readily phosphorylated by the TK enzyme to its active form.

(PA-1-STK Ovarian Carcinoma Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)