ethosuximide

Questions about ethosuximide

What does ethosuximide mean?

ethosuximide means "an anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy".

How many syllables are in ethosuximide?

ethosuximide has 5 syllables and divides as e-tho-sux-i-mide 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 ethosuximide?

Close synonyms include Emeside, Zarontin. 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 ethosuximide a common word?

ethosuximide 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 ethosuximide come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.