HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does highly active antiretroviral therapy mean? 

• HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (noun)
  The noun HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY has 1 sense:

1. a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV

  Familiarity information: HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

drug cocktail; HAART; highly active antiretroviral therapy

Hypernyms ("highly active antiretroviral therapy" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "highly active antiretroviral therapy"):

NNRTI; non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (an antiviral drug used against HIV; binds directly to reverse transcriptase and prevents RNA conversion to DNA; often used in combination with other drugs)

NRTI; nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (an antiviral drug used against HIV; is incorporated into the DNA of the virus and stops the building process; results in incomplete DNA that cannot create a new virus; often used in combination with other drugs)

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 

Also called highly active antiretroviral therapy.

(HAART, NCI Dictionary)