cortisona

Interlingua

Noun

cortisona (uncountable)

1. cortisone

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁ.t͡ʃiˈzõ.nɐ/ [koh.t͡ʃiˈzõ.nɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁ.t͡ʃiˈzõ.nɐ/ [koh.t͡ʃiˈzõ.nɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾ.t͡ʃiˈzõ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁ.t͡ʃiˈzõ.nɐ/ [koχ.t͡ʃiˈzõ.nɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻ.t͡ʃiˈzo.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾ.tiˈzo.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧so‧na

Noun

cortisona f (uncountable)

1. cortisone

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cortisone, abbrev. of corticosterone, from Latin cortĭcis and -sterone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾtiˈsona/ [koɾ.t̪iˈso.na]
• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: cor‧ti‧so‧na

Noun

cortisona f (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) cortisone

Related terms

• corticosterona
• cortisol

 

Further reading

• “cortisona”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10