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cephalosporins

cephalosporins is the plural 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

Questions about cephalosporins

What is cephalosporins the plural of?
Cephalosporins is the plural of cephalosporin.

Words near cephalosporins in the dictionary

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

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