"infliximab" meaning in English

See infliximab in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɪnˈflɪk.sɪˌmæb/ [General-American]
Etymology: From infl(ammatory) + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -ximab (“chimeric monoclonal antibody”). Etymology templates: {{af|en|inflammatory|-li-|-ximab|alt1=infl(ammatory)|t2=immunomodulating|t3=chimeric monoclonal antibody}} infl(ammatory) + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -ximab (“chimeric monoclonal antibody”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} infliximab (uncountable)
  1. (pharmacology) An immunosuppressive drug (trademark Remicade) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat the symptoms of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is a chimeric monoclonal antibody prepared from humans and mice that acts by binding to and blocking the activity of tumor necrosis factor. Wikipedia link: infliximab Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Pharmaceutical drugs Translations (Translations): infliksimabi (Finnish), infliximab [masculine] (Spanish)

Download JSON data for infliximab meaning in English (2.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "inflammatory",
        "3": "-li-",
        "4": "-ximab",
        "alt1": "infl(ammatory)",
        "t2": "immunomodulating",
        "t3": "chimeric monoclonal antibody"
      },
      "expansion": "infl(ammatory) + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -ximab (“chimeric monoclonal antibody”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From infl(ammatory) + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -ximab (“chimeric monoclonal antibody”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "infliximab (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms interfixed with -li-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ximab",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pharmaceutical drugs",
          "orig": "en:Pharmaceutical drugs",
          "parents": [
            "Drugs",
            "Matter",
            "Pharmacology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Biochemistry",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Biology",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An immunosuppressive drug (trademark Remicade) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat the symptoms of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is a chimeric monoclonal antibody prepared from humans and mice that acts by binding to and blocking the activity of tumor necrosis factor."
      ],
      "id": "en-infliximab-en-noun-r0fn5WzV",
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacology",
          "pharmacology"
        ],
        [
          "immunosuppressive",
          "immunosuppressive"
        ],
        [
          "Remicade",
          "Remicade"
        ],
        [
          "intravenous",
          "intravenous"
        ],
        [
          "injection",
          "injection"
        ],
        [
          "Crohn's disease",
          "Crohn's disease"
        ],
        [
          "ulcerative",
          "ulcerative"
        ],
        [
          "colitis",
          "colitis"
        ],
        [
          "rheumatoid arthritis",
          "rheumatoid arthritis"
        ],
        [
          "chimeric",
          "chimeric"
        ],
        [
          "monoclonal antibody",
          "monoclonal antibody"
        ],
        [
          "tumor necrosis factor",
          "tumor necrosis factor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacology) An immunosuppressive drug (trademark Remicade) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat the symptoms of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is a chimeric monoclonal antibody prepared from humans and mice that acts by binding to and blocking the activity of tumor necrosis factor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pharmacology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "infliksimabi"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "infliximab"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "infliximab"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈflɪk.sɪˌmæb/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "infliximab"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "inflammatory",
        "3": "-li-",
        "4": "-ximab",
        "alt1": "infl(ammatory)",
        "t2": "immunomodulating",
        "t3": "chimeric monoclonal antibody"
      },
      "expansion": "infl(ammatory) + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -ximab (“chimeric monoclonal antibody”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From infl(ammatory) + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -ximab (“chimeric monoclonal antibody”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "infliximab (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms interfixed with -li-",
        "English terms suffixed with -ximab",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Pharmaceutical drugs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An immunosuppressive drug (trademark Remicade) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat the symptoms of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is a chimeric monoclonal antibody prepared from humans and mice that acts by binding to and blocking the activity of tumor necrosis factor."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacology",
          "pharmacology"
        ],
        [
          "immunosuppressive",
          "immunosuppressive"
        ],
        [
          "Remicade",
          "Remicade"
        ],
        [
          "intravenous",
          "intravenous"
        ],
        [
          "injection",
          "injection"
        ],
        [
          "Crohn's disease",
          "Crohn's disease"
        ],
        [
          "ulcerative",
          "ulcerative"
        ],
        [
          "colitis",
          "colitis"
        ],
        [
          "rheumatoid arthritis",
          "rheumatoid arthritis"
        ],
        [
          "chimeric",
          "chimeric"
        ],
        [
          "monoclonal antibody",
          "monoclonal antibody"
        ],
        [
          "tumor necrosis factor",
          "tumor necrosis factor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacology) An immunosuppressive drug (trademark Remicade) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat the symptoms of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is a chimeric monoclonal antibody prepared from humans and mice that acts by binding to and blocking the activity of tumor necrosis factor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pharmacology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "infliximab"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈflɪk.sɪˌmæb/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "infliksimabi"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "infliximab"
    }
  ],
  "word": "infliximab"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.