levodopa

Questions about levodopa

What does levodopa mean?

levodopa means "the levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease".

How many syllables are in levodopa?

levodopa has 4 syllables and divides as le-vo-do-pa 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 levodopa?

Close synonyms include L-dopa, Bendopa, Brocadopa, Larodopa. 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 levodopa a common word?

levodopa 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.