multidrug
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- adjective
- /ˌmʌltiˈdrʌg/
- Specialized
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multidrogas
- Although there have been marked advances in surgery and multidrug chemotherapy over the last quarter century, the 5-year survival rate remains around 55-70%.
- multidrug resistance
Examples
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Despite these limitations, this analysis provides foundational information for resistance development over time, laying the groundwork for understanding the evolution of multidrug resistance at the genetic level.
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P. aeruginosa has developed multidrug resistance to numerous treatments, including third-generation cephalosporins, quinolone, and imipenem therapies.
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This horizontal transfer has produced things that look like this multidrug resistance complex in Salmonella tithumurium.
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In November 2007, drug-susceptibility test results from a regional TB reference laboratory confirmed multidrug resistance.
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The much-discussed epidemic of tuberculosis in New York City in the 1990s involved a few thousand cases, some of which were multidrug-resistant.
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For example, van Baar (1990) compared a group of 35 toddlers with multidrug prenatal exposure to a matched sample of non-exposed babies.
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The doctor prescribed a multidrug treatment plan to effectively combat the patient's complex illness.
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In cases of severe infections, healthcare providers often rely on multidrug therapies to improve patient outcomes.
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Multidrug therapy is crucial in treating conditions like HIV, where multiple medications work together to manage the virus.
Synonyms
About using more than one drug at the same time
Antonyms
How Many Drugs
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Multidrug starts with multi- meaning 'many', the same idea you see in multiple, and ends with drug meaning 'medicine'. So a multidrug treatment is simply a plan that uses 'many medicines' at the same time to treat an illness.