rituximab (English, noun)
expansion: rituximab (usually uncountable, plural rituximabs)
Senses:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A chimeric monoclonal antibody (trademark Rituxan) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat non-Hodgkin lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia by binding to the protein CD20 found on the surface of B cells and causing their lysis.
tags: uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: rituximabs
tags: plural
form: IDEC-C2B8
tags: alternative