Definitions

• Sandhoff Disease
  
• Sandimmune Injection
  
• Sandimmune Solution
  
• Sandoglobulin
  
• Sandostatin
  Somatostatin is a hormone. Precisely it is a mixture of two peptides, one built of 14 amino acids, the other of 28.
• Sansert
  Sansert is a brand name for methysergide, a member of the ergoline group. Methysergide is one of the most effective medications for prevention, but not treatment, of migraine headaches. However, it has a known side-effect, retroperitoneal fibrosis, that is severe, although uncommon. Novartis appears to have withdrawn it from the U.S. market after taking over Sandoz.
• Santyl
  
• saponin -
  A substance found in soybeans and many other plants. Saponins may help lower cholesterol and may have anticancer effects.
• Saquinavir
  Saquinavir hard-gel capsule 27 (Invirase) was the first PI approved by the FDA, in December 1995. A carboxamide derivative specifically designed to inhibit HIV proteinase and prevent post-translational formation of viral proteins, saquinavir is a potent inhibitor of HIV-1 and HIV-2 proteinases without prior metabolic activation. At 12 nM concentration, saquinavir has a 50% inhibition of normal HIV, and at 11 nM it has a 50% inhibition of ZDV-resistant HIV.
• saquinavir mesylate -
  A drug that belongs to the family of drugs called protease inhibitors. It interferes with the ability of a virus to make copies of itself.
• sarCNU -
  A substance that is being studied as a treatment for cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called alkylating agents. Also called sarcosinamide nitrosourea.
• sarcoid -
  An inflammatory disease marked by the formation of granulomas (small nodules of immune cells) in the lungs, lymph nodes, and other organs. Sarcoid may be acute and go away by itself, or it may be chronic and progressive. Also called sarcoidosis.
• sarcoidosis -
  An inflammatory disease marked by the formation of granulomas (small nodules of immune cells) in the lungs, lymph nodes, and other organs. Sarcoidosis may be acute and go away by itself, or it may be chronic and progressive. Also called sarcoid.
• sarcoma -
  A cancer of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
• Sarcoma, Ewing's Family of Tumors
  
• Sarcoma, Kaposi's
  
• Sarcoma, Soft Tissue, Adult
  
• Sarcoma, Soft Tissue, Childhood
  
• Sarcoma, Uterine
  
• Sarcoptes scabei Infestation
  
• sarcosinamide nitrosourea -
  A substance that is being studied as a treatment for cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called alkylating agents. Also called sarCNU.
• sargramostim -
  A colony-stimulating factor that stimulates the production of white blood cells, especially granulocytes and macrophages, and cells (in the bone marrow) that are precursors of platelets. It is a cytokine that belongs to the family of drugs called hematopoietic (blood-forming) agents. Also called granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF).
• Sargramostim Injection
  
• Sarin
  Sarin or GB (O-Isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate) is an extremely toxic substance that is one of the world's most dangerous weapons of war. As a chemical weapon, it is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations according to UN Resolution 687, and its production and stockpiling was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993.
• Sarsa