sulfa

sulfa
sulfa 1942, short name for the group of drugs derived from sulfanilamide ("amide of sulfanilic acid," which is so called because it is a sulphonic derivative of the dye-stuff ANILINE (Cf. aniline)), and shortened from that word. (The usual British spelling is sulpha.)

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