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Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic
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penicillin
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1929, coined in English by Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), who first recognized its antibiotic properties, from Modern Latin Penicillium notatum (1867), the name of the mould from which it was first obtained, from Latin penicillus "paintbrush" (see pencil ...
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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 ...
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n. any of various antibiotics obtained from penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases
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.