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Noun: sulphanilamide  ,súl-fu'ni-lu,mId
Usage: Brit, Cdn
  1. A white odourless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs
    "sulphanilamide was one of the first effective antibacterial drugs";
    - sulfanilamide

Derived forms: sulphanilamides

Type of: sulfa [N. Amer], sulfa drug [N. Amer], sulfonamide [N. Amer], sulpha [Brit, Cdn], sulphonamide [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Sulphanilamide