empagliflozin

English

Etymology

From empa- (of unknown origin) +‎ -gliflozin (“sodium–glucose cotransporter inhibitor”).

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Pronunciation

Noun

empagliflozin (uncountable)

  1. (pharmacology) An orally available competitive inhibitor of sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2; SLC5A2) with antihyperglycemic activity.[1]

References

  1. ^ “Empagliflozin”, in NCI Thesaurus, 20 November 2020 (last accessed)
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