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Answer for the clue "Semisynthetic penicillin (trade names Principen and Polycillin and SK-Ampicillin) ", 10 letters:
ampicillin

Word definitions for ampicillin in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
ampicillin \ampicillin\ n. 1. a semisynthetic penicillin which can be considered as the common benzylpenicillin containing an amino group at the alpha benzyl position. Note: It is more active against certain gram-negative bacteria than is benzylpenicillin. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ampicillin is an antibiotic used to prevent and treat a number of bacterial infections. It is used to treat respiratory tract infections , urinary tract infections , meningitis , salmonellosis , and endocarditis . It may also be used to prevent group B ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. semisynthetic penicillin (trade names Principen and Polycillin and SK-Ampicillin) [syn: Principen , Polycillin , SK-Ampicillin ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pharmaceutical drug English) A broad-spectrum antibiotic having a beta-lactam structure.

Usage examples of ampicillin.

Tylenol, ampicillin, amoxicillin, Dilantin, phenobarbital, erythromycin, Ceclor, Tegretol, Benadryl, Pediazole, Vi-Daylin Multivitamins with Iron, Alupent, Depakene, and Valium.

Penicillin, ampicillin, neomycin, vancomycin, even ciprofloxacin, you name it.

To fight her infection, she was given a succession of antibiotics: ampicillin, chloramphenicol, gentamicin, nafcillin, ceftriaxone, clindamycin, tobramycin, and ceftazidime.

In South Africa a strain was found to be resistant not only to penicillin, but to most of its successors, including ampicillin, streptomycin, methicillin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline.

Her parents were instructed, via an English-speaking relative, to give her 250 milligrams of ampicillin twice a day, to clear up her aspiration pneumonia, and twenty milligrams of Dilantin elixir, an anticonvulsant, twice a day, to suppress any further grand mal seizures.

He always gets in such a hurry he forgets to take his Ampicillin beforehand like I told him to.

Sure enough, this was the case inNogales: within spitting distance of the border a chemist was advertising amoxycillin and ampicillin at 35 per cent discount.

Garcia prepared a syringe of ampicillin and prayed to God for the souls of the monsters that could do this to another man.

To fight her infection, she was given a succession of antibiotics: ampicillin, chloramphenicol, gentamicin, nafcillin, ceftriaxone, clindamycin, tobramycin, and ceftazidime.

Penicillin, ampicillin, neomycin, vancomycin, even ciprofloxacin, you name it.