sulfanilamide

American  

[suhl-fuh-nil-uh-mahyd, -mid] / ˌsʌl fəˈnɪl əˌmaɪd, -mɪd /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of sulfanilamide

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

Example Sentences

The doctor who gave these patients sulfanilamide, A.S.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2022

But sulfanilamide didn’t taste very good, so the company’s chief chemist, Harold Cole Watkins, added other substances to the solution, including raspberry extract, saccharin, caramel—and the sweet-tasting solvent diethylene glycol.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2022

Massengill Co. of Bristol, Tenn., dissolved the sulfanilamide with an industrial substance that was a chemical relative of antifreeze.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2015

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.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2010

Yossarian sprinkled this one with sulfanilamide too and continued unwinding the gauze around Snowden’s leg until the compress was secure.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller