Acyclovir

Definition: Acyclovir

Acyclovir

Noun

1. An oral antiviral drug (trade name Zovirax) used to treat genital herpes; does not cure the disease but relieves the symptoms.

Specialty Definitions: Acyclovir

Domain	Definitions
Health	Functional analog of the nucleoside guanosine. It acts as an antimetabolite, especially in viruses. It is used as an antiviral agent, especially in herpes infections. (references)
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Synonym: Acyclovir

Synonym: Zovirax (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Acyclovir

Specialty definitions using "acyclovir": Ganciclovir. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Acyclovir

Domain	Title
Books	Acyclovir Therapy for Herpes Virus Infections (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Acyclovir

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Acyclovir (Zovirax�) treats the first and/or later episodes of genital herpes. (references)
		Prophylactic acyclovir is beneficial in selected patients to prevent herpes simplex virus reactivation. (references)
		Although acyclovir is a relatively safe drug, it may have side effects, including renal dysfunction and, rarely, central nervous system toxicity. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Acyclovir

"Acyclovir" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acyclovir" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	35	58,339

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acyclovir

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
acyclovir	676
buy acyclovir	52
acyclovir cheap	40
purchase acyclovir	39
search acyclovir	33
order acyclovir	33
acyclovir online	32
buy cheap acyclovir	29
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acyclovir cream	19
acyclovir and pregnancy	19
acyclovir side effects	15
acyclovir ointment	9
acyclovir zovirax	8
acyclovir dosage	7
acyclovir information	6
herpes acyclovir	6
generic acyclovir	5
acyclovir iontophoretic	4
acyclovir prescription	4
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Modern Translations: Acyclovir

Language		Translations for "acyclovir"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		acyclovir, acycloguanosine. (various references)

German		Aciclovir. (various references)

Italian		aciclovir. (various references)

Pig Latin		acycloviray

Russian		ацикловир. (various references)

Spanish		aciclovir. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Acyclovir

Derivations
	Words beginning with "acyclovir": acyclovirs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Acyclovir

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-l-o-r-v-y"
	-2 letters: acrylic, caloric, olivary, vicarly, vocalic.
	-3 letters: calico, calory, caroli, lorica, racily.
	-4 letters: carol, cavil, circa, claro, clary, clavi, coaly, colic, coral, coria, croci, cyclo, ivory, lyric, ovary, rival, riyal, roily, royal, valor, vicar, viola, viral, vocal, voila, volar.
	-5 letters: acyl, airy, arco, aril, arvo, aryl, calo, carl, cavy, ciao, clay, cloy, coal, coca, coil, coir, cola, coly, cory, croc, lacy, laic, lair, lari, liar, lira, loca, loci, lory, oily, oral, orca, oval, racy, rail, rial, roil, vail, vair, vary, vial, viol, virl.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-l-o-r-v-y"
	+1 letter: acyclovirs.
	+3 letters: clairvoyance.
	+4 letters: clairvoyances.
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