sulfanilamide
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Etymology edit
From sulfa- (“sulfonamide”).
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sulfanilamide (plural sulfanilamides)
- (pharmacology) Any of a class of amino substituted aromatic sulfonamides that are used as antifungal antibiotics; but especially the parent compound 4-aminobenzenesulfonamide