mercaptopurine

Questions about mercaptopurine

What does mercaptopurine mean?

mercaptopurine means "a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia".

How many syllables are in mercaptopurine?

mercaptopurine has 5 syllables and divides as mer-cap-to-pu-rine 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 mercaptopurine?

Close synonyms include Purinethol. 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 mercaptopurine a common word?

mercaptopurine 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.