tuberculostático
Spanish
Etymology
Calque of English tuberculostatic or French tuberculostatique. First used as an adjective in an article published by La Vanguardia in 1950, and as a noun in an article published by the same newspaper in 1952.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tubeɾkulosˈtatiko/ [t̪u.β̞eɾ.ku.losˈt̪a.t̪i.ko]
- Rhymes: -atiko
- Syllabification: tu‧ber‧cu‧los‧tá‧ti‧co
Adjective
tuberculostático (feminine tuberculostática, masculine plural tuberculostáticos, feminine plural tuberculostáticas)
- (medicine) tuberculostatic (that halts the growth of tubercle mycobacteria)
Noun
tuberculostático m (plural tuberculostáticos)
- (pharmacology) tuberculostatic (any drug of this kind)
Further reading
- “tuberculostático”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021