pentamidine
/pɛnˈtæmɪdiːn/
noun
- A medication used to treat certain parasitic infections, such as African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis, and also used as an inhalant to prevent pneumonia in people with weakened immune systems.
- People with HIV sometimes take pentamidine as a preventive treatment for pneumonia.
- The doctor prescribed pentamidine for the patient's parasitic infection.
- Pentamidine is given by injection or as an inhaled mist, depending on the condition.