Crossword clues for sulfa
sulfa
- Bacteria-inhibiting drug
- ___ drug (infection fighter)
- Infection-fighting drug
- Infection fighter
- Kind of drug that inhibits bacteria
- Certain bacteria-fighting drug
- Bacteria-battling drug
- Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA
- Bacteria fighter
- Antibiotics' ancestor
- Drug fighting infections
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1942, short name for the group of drugs derived from sulfanilamide ("amide of sulfanilic acid," 1937, which is so called because it is a sulphonic derivative of the dye-stuff aniline), and shortened from that word. The usual British English spelling is sulpha.
Wiktionary
a. Of or containing sulfanilamide. alt. Of or containing sulfanilamide.
WordNet
n. antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA [syn: sulfa drug, sulpha, sulfonamide]
Wikipedia
SULFA, short for Surrendered ULFA, refers to former members of the United Liberation Front of Assam that have surrendered to the Indian government.
Since 1990, the government of India has been attempting to capture members of ULFA. In 1992, a large group of high-ranking leaders and members surrendered to government authorities, which was the first time ex-ULFA members were referred to as "SULFA". However, those that surrendered were disarmed by the government, leaving them without a means of defense against retaliation from their ex-associates. They were also offered bank loans to start a new life, in return for providing information to the government about the ULFA.
Usage examples of "sulfa".
Larch was at the railroad station, personally accusing the stationmaster of losing an expected delivery of sulfa, a woman arrived at the hospital entrance, bent double with cramps and bleeding.
Without some kind of stainless steel no sulfa drugs for infections, no DDT, no chloramphenicol to cure diseases like typhoid and typhus.
All in favor of my proposal to send our existing stock of chloramphenicol and most of our sulfa drugs to Luebeck and Amsterdam, along with as much DDT as we can manage, raise your hands.
They believed that the substance, according to what they had heard, was even more magical than the group of sulfa drugs which has been developed the last few years.
He smeared damp sulfa on the wound, bandaged it up again, and covered Wallace with a more-or-less dry blanket.
Wallace looked like an Old Master painting: wounded soldier, with pack, Bren, Schmeisser, grenades and sulfa powder.
They cleaned Esther up, removed the plain gauze packing and replaced it with sulfa ointment and more gauze.
Get home, wash this mess up, get proper bandages on it, maybe some sulfa powder, and then have a little session with Mr.
It presides over the development of radar and sonar, mass-produced sulfa drugs and penicillin, mechanical computing, and the atomic bomb.
Sam sprinkled sulfa on the bullet wounds, then slapped on self-adhesive bandages.
I put the sulfa back in my saddlebags, but I could not tear myself away from the scene.
The other began with a violent sore throat, but yielded so quickly to sulfa pills that no one really knew its full course.
As long as there were sulfa pills in any drug store and they kept potent in spite of age, Ish saw no need to find out experimentally just how this sore throat would develop, if left untreated.
The other four were all elderly persons in whom neither the sulfas nor the mycetes had been able to check the progress of pneumonia.