Definitions for hydroxychloroquine
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1. hydroxychloroquine, Plaquenilnoun

   anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Plaquenil) used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and malaria and lupus erythematosus

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1. hydroxychloroquinenoun

   An antimalarial drug used to reduce inflammation in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

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1. Hydroxychloroquine

   Hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil among others, is a medication used to prevent and treat malaria in areas where malaria remains sensitive to chloroquine. Other uses include treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and porphyria cutanea tarda. It is taken by mouth, often in the form of hydroxychloroquine sulfate.Common side effects may include vomiting, headache, changes in vision, and muscle weakness. Severe side effects may include allergic reactions, vision problems, and heart problems. Although all risk cannot be excluded, it remains a treatment for rheumatic disease during pregnancy. Hydroxychloroquine is in the antimalarial and 4-aminoquinoline families of medication.Hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the United States in 1955. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. In 2020, it was the 126th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with almost 5 million prescriptions.Hydroxychloroquine has been studied for an ability to prevent and treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but clinical trials found it ineffective for this purpose and a possible risk of dangerous side effects. Among studies that deemed hydroxychloroquine intake to cause harmful side effects, a publication by The Lancet was retracted due to data flaws.

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1. hydroxychloroquine

   Hydroxychloroquine is a prescription medicine primarily used to prevent and treat malaria in areas where malaria is known to be sensitive to its effects. It is also used to treat certain auto-immune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis when other medications cannot be used or have not worked. It belongs to a class of medications known as disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). However, it has also been tested for the treatment of COVID-19, though not officially approved for this use in most countries.

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1. Hydroxychloroquine

   Hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial drug, sold under the trade names Plaquenil, Axemal, Dolquine and Quensyl, also used to reduce inflammation in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Hydroxychloroquine differs from chloroquine by the presence of a hydroxyl group at the end of the side chain: The N-ethyl substituent is beta-hydroxylated. It is available for oral administration as hydroxychloroquine sulfate of which 200 mg contains 155 mg base in chiral form. Hydroxychloroquine has similar pharmacokinetics to chloroquine, with quick gastrointestinal absorption and is eliminated by the kidney. Cytochrome P450 enzymes N-desethylated Hydroxychloroquine to Ndesethylhydroxychloroquine.

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1. Hydroxychloroquine

   A chemotherapeutic agent that acts against erythrocytic forms of malarial parasites. Hydroxychloroquine appears to concentrate in food vacuoles of affected protozoa. It inhibits plasmodial heme polymerase. (From Gilman et al., Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 9th ed, p970)

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   The numerical value of hydroxychloroquine in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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   The numerical value of hydroxychloroquine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of hydroxychloroquine in a Sentence

1. President Trump:

   The patient population that is the most vulnerable are the lupus patients because hydroxychloroquine is the only drug known to prolong survival of these patients.

2. Nayib Bukele:

   Sometimes what's recommended to the people is something different than what's recommended to the leaders, because I have been recommended to use hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis and the probability of this harming you is very low.

3. Benjamin Corb:

   President Trump pushed hard for a long time for hydroxychloroquine as a therapeutic for COVID even while the science behind the drugs use was unproven, medical experts talked openly about the unproven claims, and recently weve seen the science prove that this drug just isnt a viable therapeutic.

4. David Boulware:

   Before, the data suggested there may be no overall benefit of hydroxychloroquine, but this study shows increasing evidence that not only is there no benefit, there may likely be harm, there is increasing evidence that hydroxychloroquine should not be used in hospitalized patients.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   I don't recall The Lancet Journal study being retracted.I might have at the time heard that it was retracted, but it wasn't the only paper that was on hydroxychloroquine, my — I mean, I'm thinking back, then, my — my opinion of the effect of hydroxychloroquine was based on accumulating data from a number of studies. I don't recall specifically what those studies are now.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hydroxychloroquine