meperidine

Questions about meperidine

What does meperidine mean?

meperidine means "a synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain".

How many syllables are in meperidine?

meperidine has 4 syllables and divides as me-pe-ri-dine 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 meperidine?

Close synonyms include meperidine hydrochloride, Demerol. 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 meperidine a common word?

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