sulphonamide

English edit

sulphonamide (plural sulphonamides)

(British spelling, pharmacology) Alternative spelling of sulfonamide
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 48:
  In the early 1930s, researchers in Germany produced a group of antibacterial drugs known as sulphonamides, but they didn’t always work well and often had serious side effects.