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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
norethindrone is a noun meaning "a synthetic progestational hormone (trade name Norlutin) used in oral contraceptives and to treat endometriosis". It carries one recorded sense.
a synthetic progestational hormone (trade name Norlutin) used in oral contraceptives and to treat endometriosis
trade name
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for norethindrone come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.