salvarsan
noun
salvarsan is a noun meaning “The organoarsenic compound arsphenamine, formerly used in the treatment of syphilis and the first effective antibiotic developed against any…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-V-A-R-S-A-N, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of salvarsan is salvarsans.
What does salvarsan mean?
noun
- 1
The organoarsenic compound arsphenamine, formerly used in the treatment of syphilis and the first effective antibiotic developed against any bacterial illness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of salvarsan
- salvarsans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is salvarsan?
Salvarsan appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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).