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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
allopurinol is a noun meaning "a drug (trade name Zyloprim) used to treat gout and other conditions in which there is an excessive buildup of uric acid". It carries one recorded sense.
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for allopurinol come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.