ethosuximide

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsEmesideZarontin

   Broaderanticonvulsant

   trade name

Other forms of ethosuximide

plural

ethosuximides·

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 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: e-tho-sux-i-mide. The stress falls on "sux".

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.