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ethionamide

ethionamide

9.8
A medicine used to treat tuberculosis and sometimes leprosy when other drugs do not work
  • noun
  • /ˌɛθiəˈnæmaɪd/
  • Specialized
: etionamida
  • Many patients found ethionamide helpful in their struggle against drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Examples

  • The doctor prescribed ethionamide when the tuberculosis treatment was ineffective.

  • This would lead to MDR plus as I showed together with ethionamide resistance, ethionamide resistance is not detected.

  • When standard drugs failed, the specialist suggested ethionamide as a possible solution.

Surface Forms

ethionamide singular
ethionamides plural

Morphology

ethionamide = ethion + amide

A technical chemical name composed of the combining form 'ethion' plus the chemical suffix '-amide'; this formation is not transparently interpretable by an average B1 learner.

Etymology

The word ethionamide breaks into ethio- and -amide. A helpful way to remember it is to think of ethio- like the eth- in ethanol, a familiar chemical name, and -amide as a common chemical ending, so ethionamide is the name of a particular medicine used to treat tuberculosis.