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noun
Any of a class of amino substituted aromatic sulfonamides that are used as antifungal antibiotics; but especially the parent compound 4-aminobenzenesulfonamide
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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noun
a white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sulfa drug, sulfa, sulpha, sulfonamide
History
From sulfa- (“sulfonamide”).
