hydrodiuril

Questions about hydrodiuril

What does hydrodiuril mean?

hydrodiuril means "a diuretic drug (trade name Microzide, Esidrix, and HydroDIURIL) used in the treatment of hypertension".

How many syllables are in hydrodiuril?

hydrodiuril has 5 syllables and divides as hy-dro-di-u-ril 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 hydrodiuril?

Close synonyms include hydrochlorothiazide, Microzide, Esidrix. 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 hydrodiuril a common word?

hydrodiuril 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.