bendopa

Questions about bendopa

What does bendopa mean?

bendopa means "the levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease".

How many syllables are in bendopa?

bendopa has 3 syllables and divides as ben-do-pa 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 bendopa?

Close synonyms include L-dopa, levodopa, Brocadopa, Larodopa. 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 bendopa a common word?

bendopa is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.