SULFANILAMIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sulfanilamide mean? 

• SULFANILAMIDE (noun)
  The noun SULFANILAMIDE has 1 sense:

1. a white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs

  Familiarity information: SULFANILAMIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SULFANILAMIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sulfanilamide" is a kind of...):

sulfa; sulfa drug; sulfonamide; sulpha (antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA)

 Context examples 

A chlorinated heterocyclic sulfanilamide with potential antineoplastic activity and potential immunosuppressive activity.

(Chloroquinoxaline sulfonamide, NCI Thesaurus)