Medical Dictionary

ziconotide

noun zi·con·o·tide \zī-ˈkän-ō-ˌtīd\

Medical Definition of ZICONOTIDE

:  a calcium channel blocker C102H172N36O32S7 with analgesic and neuroprotective effects that has been used to relieve chronic intractable pain and is a synthetic analog of a constituent of the venom of a tropical marine snail of the genus Conus (C. magus)

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