physostigmine

1. 1.

   used in treatment of Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma

   Broaderalkaloid

Other forms of physostigmine

plural

physostigmines·

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 physostigmine

What does physostigmine mean?

physostigmine means "used in treatment of Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma".

How many syllables are in physostigmine?

physostigmine has 4 syllables and divides as phy-so-stig-mine 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.