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Interlingua
Noun
cortisona (uncountable)
- cortisone
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧so‧na
Noun
cortisona f (uncountable)
- cortisone
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cortisone, abbrev. of corticosterone, from Latin cortĭcis and -sterone.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koɾtiˈsona/
- Rhymes: -ona
- Syllabification: cor‧ti‧so‧na
Noun
cortisona f (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) cortisone
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