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cephalosporine

cephalosporine is the alternative form of cephalosporin.

Meaning of cephalosporin

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

Forms of cephalosporine

pluralcephalosporines

Questions about cephalosporine

What is cephalosporine the alternative form of?
Cephalosporine is the alternative form of cephalosporin.

Words near cephalosporine in the dictionary

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

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