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delavirdine (medicine) and planetesimal (iou)


delavirdine (medicine)


delavirdine -->
NNRTI


A member of a class of compounds, including delavirdine, loviride and nevirapine, that acts to directly combine with and block the action of HIV's reverse transcriptase (see). In contrast, nucleoside analogs block reverse transcriptase by capping the unfinished DNA chain that the enzyme is constructing. NNRTIs have suffered from HIV's ability to rapidly mutate and become resistant to their effects.


planetesimal (iou)



planetesimal noun & adjective. E20.
[from PLANET noun1 + INFINIT)ESIMAL adjective.]
Astronomy.
A. noun. A small solid body following a planetary orbit; a miniature planet. E20.
b. adjective. Pertaining to, involving, or composed of planetesimals; esp. designating the hypothesis that the planets were formed by the accretion of a vast number of planetesimals in a cold state. E20.