meclizine

Questions about meclizine

What does meclizine mean?

meclizine means "an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prevent motion sickness".

How many syllables are in meclizine?

meclizine has 3 syllables and divides as me-cli-zine 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 meclizine?

Close synonyms include meclizine hydrochloride, Antivert. 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 meclizine a common word?

meclizine 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 meclizine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.