oxytetracycline

Questions about oxytetracycline

What does oxytetracycline mean?

oxytetracycline means "a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections".

How many syllables are in oxytetracycline?

oxytetracycline has 6 syllables and divides as ox-y-te-tra-cy-cline 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 oxytetracycline?

Close synonyms include hydroxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, Terramycin. 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 oxytetracycline a common word?

oxytetracycline 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.