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cephalosporin

/kɛfələʊˈspɔəɹɪn/

cephalosporin noun: any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from Acremonium fungi, having a cepham structure.

Noun

cephalosporin (plural cephalosporins)

  1. Any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from Acremonium fungi, having a cepham structure.
    • Another important group of antibiotics, the cephalosporins, a class that includes more than twenty-five different drugs, are chemically distinct from the penicillins but act in the same way as cell wall inhibitors, as do vancomycin and bacitracin.2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 63

cephalosporin meaning in Tamil and Bengali

cephalosporin in Tamil

கெபல்லோ ஸ்போரின்

cephalosporin in Bengali

অ্যাকারমোনিয়াম ছত্রাক থেকে উদ্ভূত, তৈরি

Forms of cephalosporin

pluralcephalosporins

Origin of cephalosporin

From translingual Cephalosporium (now Acremonium), a genus of fungi, + -in.

Words formed from cephalosporin

Questions about cephalosporin

What does cephalosporin mean?
Cephalosporin means any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from Acremonium fungi, having a cepham structure.
What is cephalosporin in Tamil?
Cephalosporin in Tamil is கெபல்லோ ஸ்போரின். See Cephalosporin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cephalosporin?
Cephalosporin is a noun.
How do you pronounce cephalosporin?
Cephalosporin is pronounced /kɛfələʊˈspɔəɹɪn/.
What is the plural of cephalosporin?
The plural of cephalosporin is cephalosporins.

Words near cephalosporin in the dictionary

  1. cephalosporanate
  2. cephalosporanates
  3. cephalosporanic
  4. cephalosporanic acid
  5. cephalosporidine
  6. cephalosporin
  7. cephalosporinase
  8. cephalosporinases
  9. cephalosporine
  10. cephalosporines
  11. cephalosporins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cephalosporin (page history and authors); cephalosporin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cephalosporin (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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