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cepham

cepham noun: one of a class of antibiotics, including the cephalosporins, that contain a bicyclic heterocyclic structure - 5-thia-1-azabicyclo[4.2.0]octan-8-one.

Noun

cepham (plural cephams)

  1. one of a class of antibiotics, including the cephalosporins, that contain a bicyclic heterocyclic structure - 5-thia-1-azabicyclo[4.2.0]octan-8-one

Forms of cepham

pluralcephams

Questions about cepham

What does cepham mean?
Cepham means one of a class of antibiotics, including the cephalosporins, that contain a bicyclic heterocyclic structure - 5-thia-1-azabicyclo[4.2.0]octan-8-one.
What part of speech is cepham?
Cepham is a noun.
What is the plural of cepham?
The plural of cepham is cephams.

Words near cepham in the dictionary

  1. cephalotropism
  2. cephalotropisms
  3. cephalous
  4. Cephalus
  5. cephalæa
  6. cepham
  7. cephams
  8. cephamycin
  9. cephamycinase
  10. cephamycinases
  11. cephamycins

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