amoxicillin

Questions about amoxicillin

What does amoxicillin mean?

amoxicillin means "an antibiotic; a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin) used to treat bacterial infections".

How many syllables are in amoxicillin?

amoxicillin has 5 syllables: a-mox-i-cil-lin. The stress falls on "mox". In IPA it is /əˈmɔksəˌsɪlɪn/.

What is another word for amoxicillin?

Close synonyms include Amoxil, Larotid, Polymox, Trimox, Augmentin. 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 amoxicillin a common word?

amoxicillin 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.