acyclovir

[ ey-sahy-kloh-veer, -kluh- ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a crystalline compound, C18H11N5O3, used as an antiviral drug in the treatment of herpes infections.

Origin of acyclovir

1
1980–85; perhaps acyclo(guanosine) an earlier name for the compound (a-6 + cyclo- + guanosine a nucleotide) + vir(us) or vir(al)

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