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🛡️ Blocking inflammation 💊 Asthma medicine
antileukotriene

antileukotriene

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Causing the body to block certain chemicals called leukotrienes to reduce swelling in the airways
  • adjective
  • /ˌæntiˌluːkəˈtraɪiːn/
  • Specialized
: antileucotrieno
  • Antileukotriene medications can effectively reduce inflammation in patients suffering from asthma.

Examples

  • Scores for both major and minor symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis improved significantly after antileukotriene therapy.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The doctor prescribed an antileukotriene drug to help manage her allergies more effectively.

  • Our data do not compare any differences in the effects of the two different antileukotriene agents in our population.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The safety of several antileukotriene agents has been studied in clinical trials.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Inhaled steroids combined with antileukotriene treatments can provide better control of asthma symptoms.

Surface Forms

antileukotriene positive

Morphology

antileukotriene = leukotriene (opaque) = anti + leukotriene

The word is built regularly with the prefix anti-, but the base leukotriene is a specialized biomedical term that most learners will not know, so the meaning is not inferable for an average B1 learner.

Etymology

The word antileukotriene begins with anti- meaning 'against' and contains leuko- meaning 'white', the same root in leukemia, plus -triene which comes from 'three' in chemical names. Leukotrienes are substances that cause inflammation in asthma and allergies, so something antileukotriene acts 'against' those substances to reduce airway inflammation.