amethopterin

1. 1.

   toxic antimetabolite that limits cellular reproduction by acting as an antagonist to folic acid; used to treat certain cancers and psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis

   Synonymsmethotrexatemethotrexate sodium

   Broaderantimetaboliteimmunosuppressant

Other forms of amethopterin

plural

amethopterins·

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 amethopterin

What does amethopterin mean?

amethopterin means "toxic antimetabolite that limits cellular reproduction by acting as an antagonist to folic acid; used to treat certain cancers and psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis".

How many syllables are in amethopterin?

amethopterin has 5 syllables: a-me-thop-te-rin. The stress falls on "thop".

What is another word for amethopterin?

Close synonyms include methotrexate, methotrexate sodium. 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 amethopterin a common word?

amethopterin 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.