miconazole
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7.9
- noun
- /ˌmaɪkəˈnæzoʊl/
- Specialized
- After using miconazole for a week, the symptoms of the fungal infection began to improve.
Examples
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The doctor prescribed a cream containing miconazole to help clear up the skin infection.
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Miconazole is the antifungal of choice for P. boydii, (n38) and several authors have reported successful treatment with ketoconazole, (n12, n14, n17, n19).
Academic text (2006) -
But the real hilarity, I think, would be mixing up Tazorac with the miconazole.
Blog text (28) -
But this time, I also had out on my counter my tube of Tazorac, a tube of benzocaine (oral numbing cream), and here's the kicker -- a tube of super glue and a tube of 4% miconazole.
Blog text (28) -
Many athletes use miconazole to treat athlete's foot and other skin fungal infections.
Synonyms
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7.4
A brand of medicine women use to treat vaginal yeast infections
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9.9
A pill that treats fungal infections, especially in the nails
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6.0
A medicine taken by mouth that treats nail infections caused by fungus
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7.3
A medicine that kills or stops fungi that cause infections
How Effective
- Specialized
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7.9
- Specialized
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4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
miconazole = micon + azole
A technical pharmaceutical name formed from a combining-stem referring to fungi and the chemical-class suffix '-azole'; this formation is specialized and not transparently interpretable by an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Miconazole comes from two parts: myco-, which means 'fungus' and can be remembered by thinking of 'mushroom', and -azole, a common ending for medicines that fight fungi. So miconazole is a drug used to treat fungal infections on the skin and in the mouth.