cardura

1. 1.

   an antihypertensive drug (trade name Cardura) that works by relaxing blood vessels so that blood passes through them more easily; it is also used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia

   Synonymsdoxazosin

   Broaderantihypertensive

Other forms of cardura

plural

carduras·

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 cardura

What does cardura mean?

cardura means "an antihypertensive drug (trade name Cardura) that works by relaxing blood vessels so that blood passes through them more easily; it is also used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia".

How many syllables are in cardura?

cardura has 3 syllables: car-du-ra. The stress falls on "car".

What is another word for cardura?

Close synonyms include doxazosin. 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 cardura a common word?

cardura 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.