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claritromycin

claritromycin is the alternative form of clarithromycin.

Meaning of clarithromycin

Noun

clarithromycin (uncountable)

  1. A semisynthetic macrolide antibiotic C₃₈H₆₉NO₁₃ (trademarks Biaxin, Klaricid) used especially in the treatment of various mild to moderate bacterial infections.

Questions about claritromycin

What is claritromycin the alternative form of?
Claritromycin is the alternative form of clarithromycin.

Words near claritromycin in the dictionary

  1. Clarists
  2. clarithromycin
  3. clarities
  4. Claritin
  5. claritive
  6. claritromycin
  7. claritude
  8. claritudes
  9. clarity
  10. clark
  11. Clark cell

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Adapted from Wiktionary: claritromycin (page history and authors); clarithromycin (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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