lisinopril

Questions about lisinopril

What does lisinopril mean?

lisinopril means "an ACE inhibiting drug (trade names Prinival or Zestril) administered as an antihypertensive and after heart attacks".

How many syllables are in lisinopril?

lisinopril has 4 syllables and divides as li-si-no-pril 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 lisinopril?

Close synonyms include Prinival, Zestril. 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 lisinopril a common word?

lisinopril 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lisinopril come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.