furazolidone
noun
furazolidone is a noun meaning “An antibacterial agent used to treat diarrhoea and enteritis caused by bacteria or protozoan infections” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-A-Z-O-L-I-D-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of furazolidone is furazolidones.
What does furazolidone mean?
noun
- 1
An antibacterial agent used to treat diarrhoea and enteritis caused by bacteria or protozoan infections.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of furazolidone
- furazolidones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is furazolidone?
Furazolidone appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Furazolidone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense antibacterial:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | furazolidona |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.