nitrofurantoin

What does nitrofurantoin mean?

nitrofurantoin means "derivative of nitrofuran used as an antibacterial medicine (trade name Macrodantin) effective against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria; used to treat infections of the urinary tract".

How many syllables are in nitrofurantoin?

nitrofurantoin has 5 syllables and divides as ni-tro-fu-ran-toin 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 nitrofurantoin?

Close synonyms include Macrodantin. 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 nitrofurantoin a common word?

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