drug cocktail

1. 1.

   a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV

   Synonymshighly active antiretroviral therapyHAART

   Broadermedicine

   Partsnon-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitornucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitorprotease inhibitor

Questions about drug cocktail

What does drug cocktail mean?

drug cocktail means "a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV".

What is another word for drug cocktail?

Close synonyms include highly active antiretroviral therapy, HAART. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drug cocktail a common word?

drug cocktail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.