rifampin

What does rifampin mean?

rifampin means "an antibacterial drug (trade names Rifadin and Rimactane) used to treat tuberculosis".

How many syllables are in rifampin?

rifampin has 3 syllables and divides as ri-fam-pin 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 rifampin?

Close synonyms include Rifadin, Rimactane. 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 rifampin a common word?

rifampin 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rifampin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.