candesartan cilexetil

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can·de·sar·tan ci·lex·e·til

(kăn′də-sär′tn sĭ-lĕk′sə-tĭl′)

An angiotensin II receptor blocker drug, C₃₃H₃₄N₆O₆, used to treat hypertension and heart failure.

[cande-, of unknown origin + -sartan, angiotensin II receptor blocker suff.; see losartan + cilexetil (shortening and alteration of cyclohexyloxycarbonyloxy ethyl ester).]

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22 November 2013 -- London-based distressed debt broker The Seaport Group LLC and its Seaport Financial Europe Ltd subsidiary have announced the acquisition of Amias Berman & Co LLP and its institutional sales and trading platform.

Amias Berman & Co LLP has operated since 2009 as an independent principal fixed income firm.

-Seaport Financial Europe acquires fixed income firm

In around 1500, when he was a priest at Lymington, Hampshire, Wolsey got bladdered at a village feast, and was punished by justice of the peace, Sir Amias Paulet.