glucophage

1. 1.

   an antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucophage) prescribed to treat type II diabetes

   Synonymsmetformin

   Broaderantidiabetic

   trade name

Other forms of glucophage

plural

glucophages·

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 glucophage

What does glucophage mean?

glucophage means "an antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucophage) prescribed to treat type II diabetes".

How many syllables are in glucophage?

glucophage has 3 syllables: glu-co-phage. The stress falls on "glu".

What is another word for glucophage?

Close synonyms include metformin. 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 glucophage a common word?

glucophage 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.