aldactone

Questions about aldactone

What does aldactone mean?

aldactone means "a synthetic corticosteroid (trade name Aldactone) used to treat hypertension".

How many syllables are in aldactone?

aldactone has 3 syllables and divides as al-dac-tone under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for aldactone?

Close synonyms include spironolactone. 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 aldactone a common word?

aldactone 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aldactone come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.