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sulfathiazole

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sul-fathi-a-zole
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A short-acting sulfa drug, a common oral and topical antimicrobial prior to the discovery of less toxic alternatives.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From sulfa- (“sulfonamide”) + thiazole.

Usage

Inflected Forms

sulfathiazoles (plural) sulphathiazole (alternative)

Derived Forms

phthalylsulfathiazole succinylsulfathiazole

Questions

What does sulfathiazole mean?
A short-acting sulfa drug, a common oral and topical antimicrobial prior to the discovery of less toxic alternatives.
Where does sulfathiazole come from?
From sulfa- (“sulfonamide”) + thiazole.

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