ranitidine
English
Etymology
From furan, nitro-, -idine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹəˈnɪtɪdiːn/
Noun
ranitidine (uncountable)
- (pharmacology) A furan which blocks the histamine H2-receptors, to prevent the secretion of gastric acid.
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 46)
- The huge sales of one drug in particular, ranitidine (sold under the trade name Zantac®), helped to lift the British pharmaceutical company Glaxo into the world league.
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 46)
Italian
Noun
ranitidine f
- plural of ranitidina