Definition of "cox-2" []

• An enzyme that makes prostaglandins that cause inflammation and pain and fever (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In the new research, published in the journal, Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, patients were taking either a high dose of lumiracoxib, a type of drug known as a cox-2 inhibitor, high dose of ibuprofen or naproxen, which are both non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs known as NSAIDs."
• "Aspirin is an inhibitor of a lot of these inflammations, specifically something known as cox-2 (ph), which a lot of these medications target, aspirin does as well."
• "Your physician might prescribe Pfizer's Celebrex, which, like Vioxx, is a cox-2 inhibitor."