Meaning & use
tirzepatide
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Meaning
noununcountablemedical
A prescription medicine given by injection that copies two gut hormones, used to treat type 2 diabetes and to help people with obesity lose weight.
Grammar: Usually has no article or plural: she takes tirzepatide, not a tirzepatide.
Patterns
- take tirzepatide
- be prescribed tirzepatide
- tirzepatide for something
Her doctor prescribed tirzepatide to help control her blood sugar.
In the trial, patients who received tirzepatide lost more weight than those given a placebo.
Tirzepatide is injected once a week under the skin of the stomach or thigh.
Common combinations
- weekly tirzepatide injection
- He gives himself a weekly tirzepatide injection on Sunday mornings.
- be prescribed tirzepatide
- She was prescribed tirzepatide after other treatments failed.
- tirzepatide dose
- The nurse raised her tirzepatide dose after a month.
- side effects of tirzepatide
- Nausea is among the most common side effects of tirzepatide.
- tirzepatide trial
- The tirzepatide trial enrolled several thousand adults.
Commonly confused: tirzepatide or semaglutide?
tirzepatide vs semaglutide
Semaglutide is a different weight-loss and diabetes drug that copies only one hormone, whereas tirzepatide acts on two; the names are often mixed up in news stories.
Practice
Which sentence uses tirzepatide correctly?
Choose one answer.
Tirzepatide is an uncountable drug name, so it takes no article or plural and is a medicine given by injection. The other options treat it as a countable object, a verb, or a food.
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