pyrazinamide

[ pir-uh-zin-uh-mahyd, -mid ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a substance, C5H5N3O, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.

Origin of pyrazinamide

1
1950–55; pyrazine (<German Pyrazin, alteration of Pyridinpyridine, by insertion of az-az-) + amide

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