cortisona

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Interlingua

Noun

cortisona (uncountable)

  1. cortisone

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧so‧na

Noun

cortisona f (uncountable)

  1. cortisone

Spanish

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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)

  1. (biochemistry) cortisone

References

  1. ^ cortisona”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

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