a steroid drug derived from prednisone and having the same uses as cortisone
Word origin
C20: altered from prednisone
prednisolone in American English
(predˈnɪsəˌloun)
noun
Pharmacology
a synthetic glucocorticoid, C21H28O5, used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas
Word origin
[1950–55; alter. of prednisone by insertion of -ol1]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: International Gothic, bleep, conflict of interest, point spread, speech recognition-ol is a suffix used in the names of chemical derivatives, representing “alcohol” (glycerol; naphthol; phenol), or sometimes “phenol” or less definitely assignable phenol derivatives (resorcinol)
Examples of 'prednisolone' in a sentence
prednisolone
I was treated with prednisolone over ten years.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Since then, he has endured chemotherapy once every three weeks and a prednisolone steroid tablet every other day.