semaglutide
English
Etymology
From [Term?] + -glutide (“glucagon-like peptide analog”).
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Noun
semaglutide (uncountable)
- (pharmacology) A peptide used in the treatment of diabetes and as an antiobesity medication.
- 2022 April 28, Gina Kolata, “Patients Taking Experimental Obesity Drug Lost More Than 50 Pounds, Maker Claims”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Last year, the situation began to change when Novo Nordisk received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market semaglutide. The drug can elicit a 15 percent to 17 percent weight loss in people with obesity.
- 2023 February 23, Jason Halford, “It may be the most effective anti-obesity drug yet – but even Wegovy is no ‘wonder cure’”, in The Guardian, ISSN 0261-3077:
- But now a new generation of medications has arrived, based on a better understanding of the biological underpinnings of obesity. […] One of these medications – semaglutide, sold under the brand name Wegovy – will soon be available in UK chemists in the form of a weekly, self-administered injection.
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See also
- Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsus (brand names)