cefuroxime

What does cefuroxime mean?

cefuroxime means "a cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin); indicated for infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract or meninges".

How many syllables are in cefuroxime?

cefuroxime has 4 syllables and divides as ce-fu-rox-ime 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 cefuroxime?

Close synonyms include Ceftin, Zinacef. 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 cefuroxime a common word?

cefuroxime 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cefuroxime come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.