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Nabiximols, the Glossary

Nabiximols (USAN, trade name Sativex) is a specific Cannabis extract that was approved in 2010 as a botanical drug in the United Kingdom.^[1]

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Medicinal use of cannabis

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Almirall

Almirall, S.A. is a Spanish pharmaceutical company dedicated to medical dermatology, with headquarters in Barcelona, founded in 1944.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Backslash

The backslash is a mark used mainly in computing and mathematics.

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Bayer

Bayer AG (English:, commonly pronounced) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world.

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A botanical drug is defined in the United States Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as a botanical product that is marketed as diagnosing, mitigating, treating, or curing a disease; a botanical product in turn, is a finished, labeled product that contains ingredients from plants.

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Cancer pain

Pain in cancer may arise from a tumor compressing or infiltrating nearby body parts; from treatments and diagnostic procedures; or from skin, nerve and other changes caused by a hormone imbalance or immune response.

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Cannabidiol

Cannabidiol (CBD) is a phytocannabinoid discovered in 1940.

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Cannabinoid

Cannabinoids are several structural classes of compounds found in the cannabis plant primarily and most animal organisms (although insects lack such receptors) or as synthetic compounds. Nabiximols and Cannabinoid are cannabinoids.

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Cannabis

Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Combination drug

A combination drug or a fixed-dose combination (FDC) is a medicine that includes two or more active ingredients combined in a single dosage form. Nabiximols and combination drug are combination drugs.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Dronabinol

Dronabinol (INN), also known under the trade names Marinol and Syndros, is a generic name for the molecule of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the pharmaceutical context. Nabiximols and Dronabinol are Benzochromenes.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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GW Pharmaceuticals

GW Pharmaceuticals Limited is a British pharmaceutics company known for its multiple sclerosis treatment product nabiximols (brand name, Sativex) which was the first natural cannabis plant derivative to gain market approval in any country.

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Health Canada

Health Canada (HC; Santé Canada, SC)Health Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Health.

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Hortapharm B.V.

HortaPharm B.V. is a cannabis research business headquartered in the Netherlands.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Medical cannabis

Medical cannabis, medicinal cannabis or medical marijuana (MMJ), is cannabis and cannabinoids that are prescribed by physicians for their patients. Nabiximols and medical cannabis are medicinal use of cannabis.

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Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.

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Nabilone

Nabilone, sold under the brand name Cesamet among others, is a synthetic cannabinoid with therapeutic use as an antiemetic and as an adjunct analgesic for neuropathic pain. Nabiximols and Nabilone are Benzochromenes and cannabinoids.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.

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Neuropathic pain

Neuropathic pain is pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system.

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Novartis

Novartis AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland.

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Oral mucosa

The oral mucosa is the mucous membrane lining the inside of the mouth.

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Otsuka Pharmaceutical

(), abbreviated OPC, is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, Osaka and Naruto, Japan.

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Overactive bladder

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a common condition where there is a frequent feeling of needing to urinate to a degree that it negatively affects a person's life.

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Placebo

A placebo is a substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Spasticity

Spasticity is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance with a combination of paralysis, increased tendon reflex activity, and hypertonia.

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Substance dependence

Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption of the drug.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabiximols

Also known as ATC code N02BG10, ATCvet code QN02BG10, SATIVEX.

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Medicinal use of cannabis

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