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Medical discovery of 1928
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penicillin
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various antibiotics obtained from penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pharmaceutical drug English) Any of a group of narrow-spectrum antibiotics obtained from ''Penicillium'' molds or synthesized; they have a beta-lactam structure; most are active against gram-positive bacteria and used in the treatment of various ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Penicillin ( PCN or pen ) is a group of antibiotics which include penicillin G ( intravenous use ), penicillin V (oral use), procaine penicillin , and benzathine penicillin ( intramuscular use ). Penicillin antibiotics were among the first medications to ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Chain had overcome the problems which had defeated every previous experimenter with penicillin , but only on a small scale. ▪ Experimentally, a penicillin focus is created in animals by applying penicillin in very high concentrations ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lactam \Lac"tam\, n. [Lactone + amido.] (Chem.) One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol; a cyclic amide. beta-lactam or [beta]-lactam , a lactam in which the amide bond is contained within a four-membered ring, ...
Usage examples of penicillin.
Wyrazik had not, until that time, known about his allergy to penicillin.
Since, with most patients, it was normal to use penicillin to treat pneumonia, it appeared that Townsend had either read the allergy warning in his file, or had remembered it-perhaps both.
One was a notation 130 about a penicillin allergy, which did not seem significant.
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.
The great contemporary achievement of modern medicine is the technology for controlling and preventing bacterial infection, but this did not fall into our laps with the appearance of penicillin and the sulfonamides.
He bought needle forceps, a nylon suture kit, surgical needles, scalpels, drips, antihistamines, hydrocortisone, penicillin tablets, some powdered antibiotics and three tins of vitamin B.
An example would be the bacteria that secrete penicillinase, which is an enzyme that destroys penicillin.
The staph bacteria in question proved resistant to treatment with penicillins, but had responded to high doses of cephalosporin.
Never mind a thing like staph or gonorrhea which mutated into forms resistant to a drug like penicillin.
She had strep throat, and she had to stay in bed for days, taking penicillin and trying to swallow the soft foods that Barb Hendrickson brought over to her.
The rest of the sixty-day course can be completed with amoxicillin, a form of penicillin that is known for its safety with children and infants, if the organism is sensitive to it.
We have rediscovered penicillin eighteen times, streptomycin and hemomycetin three times, and have isolated several very promising antifungal and antibacterial agents.
Penicillin, ampicillin, neomycin, vancomycin, even ciprofloxacin, you name it.
And in two days it developed into a full blown clostridial infection that was apparently completely resistant to the penicillin I prescribed.
Penicillin is theoretically contraindicated because if you rupture the cell wall of this thing, you release more toxin, and her system does not need more toxin.