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sulphanilamides

sulphanilamides is the plural of sulphanilamide.

Meaning of sulphanilamide

Noun

sulphanilamide (countable and uncountable, plural sulphanilamides)

  1. (UK) The amide of sulphanilic acid, used to treat streptococcal infections; the parent compound of the sulphonamides.
    • Gerhard Domagk discovered that the red dye Prontosil is active against streptococcal infections in mice and humans. Soon afterward French workers showed that its active antibacterial agent is sulphanilamide.2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 9

Questions about sulphanilamides

What is sulphanilamides the plural of?
Sulphanilamides is the plural of sulphanilamide.

Words near sulphanilamides in the dictionary

  1. sulphane
  2. sulphanes
  3. sulphanide
  4. sulphanides
  5. sulphanilamide
  6. sulphanilamides
  7. sulphanilate
  8. sulphanilates
  9. sulphanilic
  10. sulphanilic acid
  11. sulphantimonate

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