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Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; compare English aciclovir. First attested in 1980.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.t͡sɘˈklɔ.vir/
- Rhymes: -ɔvir
- Syllabification: a‧cy‧klo‧wir
Noun
acyklowir m inan
- (pharmacology) aciclovir (a cyclic synthetic nucleoside C8H11N5O3 used as an antiviral drug (trademarks Avirax, Zovirax) chiefly in the treatment of chicken pox, shingles, the genital form of herpes simplex, and AIDS)
Declension
References
- ^ Polski tygodnik lekarski (in Polish), volume 35, 1980, page 1244
Further reading
- acyklowir in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego