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besilate

besilate is the alternative spelling of besylate.

Meaning of besylate

Noun

besylate (plural besylates)

  1. A salt or ester of benzenesulfonic acid.

Forms of besilate

pluralbesilates

Origin of besilate

Respelling of besylate by substituting i for y, in accordance with principle № 7 of the World Health Organization’s 2004 “General principles for guidance in devising international nonproprietary names for pharmaceutical substances” (WHO/EDM/QSM/2004.5).

Questions about besilate

What is besilate the alternative spelling of?
Besilate is the alternative spelling of besylate.

Words near besilate in the dictionary

  1. besifovir
  2. besigh
  3. besighed
  4. besighing
  5. besighs
  6. besilate
  7. besilates
  8. besilesomab
  9. besilked
  10. besilver
  11. besing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: besilate (page history and authors); besylate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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