nitrofurantoin

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsMacrodantin

   Broaderantibacterial

   trade name

Other forms of nitrofurantoin

plural

nitrofurantoins·

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 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: ni-tro-fu-ran-toin. The stress falls on "fu".

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.