antiprotozoal

Questions about antiprotozoal

What does antiprotozoal mean?

antiprotozoal means "a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa".

How many syllables are in antiprotozoal?

antiprotozoal has 6 syllables and divides as an-ti-pro-to-zo-al 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 antiprotozoal?

Close synonyms include antiprotozoal drug. 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 antiprotozoal a common word?

antiprotozoal 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.