metronidazole

1. 1.

   antiprotozoal medication (trade name Flagyl) used to treat trichomoniasis and giardiasis

   SynonymsFlagyl

   Broaderantiprotozoal

   trade name

Other forms of metronidazole

plural

metronidazoles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about metronidazole

What does metronidazole mean?

metronidazole means "antiprotozoal medication (trade name Flagyl) used to treat trichomoniasis and giardiasis".

How many syllables are in metronidazole?

metronidazole has 6 syllables: me-tro-ni-da-zo-le. The stress falls on "da".

What is another word for metronidazole?

Close synonyms include Flagyl. 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 metronidazole a common word?

metronidazole 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.