orasone

1. 1.

   a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant

   SynonymsprednisoneDeltasoneLiquid PredMeticorten

   Broaderglucocorticoidanti-inflammatory

   trade name

Other forms of orasone

plural

orasones·

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 orasone

What does orasone mean?

orasone means "a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant".

How many syllables are in orasone?

orasone has 3 syllables: o-ra-sone. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for orasone?

Close synonyms include prednisone, Deltasone, Liquid Pred, Meticorten. 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 orasone a common word?

orasone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.