acebutolol

1. 1.

   an oral beta blocker (trade name Sectral) used in treating hypertension

   SynonymsSectral

   Broaderbeta blocker

   trade name

Other forms of acebutolol

plural

acebutolols·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acebutolol

What does acebutolol mean?

acebutolol means "an oral beta blocker (trade name Sectral) used in treating hypertension".

How many syllables are in acebutolol?

acebutolol has 5 syllables: a-ce-bu-to-lol. The stress falls on "bu".

What is another word for acebutolol?

Close synonyms include Sectral. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acebutolol a common word?

acebutolol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.