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say it: FAH-suh-maks
fosamax is a noun meaning "a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause". It is pronounced /ˈfɑsəˌmæks/ — FAH-suh-maks. It carries one recorded sense.
a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause
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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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fosamax come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.