furosemide

1. 1.

   commonly used diuretic (trade name Lasix) used to treat hypertension and edema

   SynonymsLasix

   Broaderdiuretic drug

   trade name

Other forms of furosemide

plural

furosemides·

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 furosemide

What does furosemide mean?

furosemide means "commonly used diuretic (trade name Lasix) used to treat hypertension and edema".

How many syllables are in furosemide?

furosemide has 4 syllables: fu-ro-se-mide. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for furosemide?

Close synonyms include Lasix. 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 furosemide a common word?

furosemide 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.