sulfanilamide

[suhl-fuh-nil-uh-mahyd, -mid]

noun

Pharmacology.

1. a white, crystalline amide of sulfanilic acid, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 2 S, formerly used in the treatment of bacterial infections: replaced by its derivatives and by antibiotics.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sulfanilamide¹

First recorded in 1935–40; sulfanil(ic acid) + amide

Example Sentences

It was later established that prontosil is metabolized by gut bacteria to generate the molecule sulfanilamide, which is the active form of the drug3.

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I am allergic to sulfanilamide and things like red yeast rice.

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War also brought about the mass production of antibiotics, especially sulfanilamide and penicillin.

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He removed some packets of sulfanilamide from the first-aid kit.

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She was soon put to work helping Dr. Geiling establish the toxicity of elixir of sulfanilamide, a medicine that would be linked with scores of deaths because it contained a deadly industrial solvent.

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