ventolin

Questions about ventolin

What does ventolin mean?

ventolin means "a bronchodilator (trade names Ventolin or Proventil) used for asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant forms; side effects are tachycardia and shakiness".

How many syllables are in ventolin?

ventolin has 3 syllables and divides as ven-to-lin 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 ventolin?

Close synonyms include albuterol, Proventil. 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 ventolin a common word?

ventolin 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.