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• The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.From the entry fill
• It was the rise of penicillin, not improved hygiene, that finally conquered puerperal fever.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 344. From the entry puerperal fever
• The extract has no effect on cefradin, vancomycin, lincomycin, erythromycin, ampicillin, penicillin G, or bacitracin.2014 December 16, Afsaneh Noormandi, Fatemeh Dabaghzadeh, “Effects of green tea on Escherichia coli as a uropathogen”, in Journal of…. From the entry cefradin
• It wasn't until the discovery of penicillin and the sulfa drugs that I finally beat that condition.2000, Sam George Arcus, Deja Views of an Aging Orphan: Growing up in the Hebrew National Orphan Home. From the entry sulfa
• This Scottish bacteriologist accidentally discovered the antibiotic penicillin after bacteria-killing fungus formed on staphylococci cultures he had left unattended.2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 127. From the entry staphylococcus
• In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook.2007 November 11, Jay McInerney, “Faking It”, in New York Times. From the entry MacBook
• She recommends similar treatments for primary syphilis, including aqueous penicillin, and retreatment and reevaluation for two years on a regular basis.1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry retreatment
• That was years before penicillin, of course.1985, Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. From the entry Cupid's Disease
• Poland claimed urgent need of penicillin for its post-war venereal disease campaign and appealed to the World Health Organization for aid.1972, Dorothy W. Douglas with Lynn Turgeon, chapter XIV, in Transitional Economic Systems, The Polish-Czech Example, New York and London…. From the entry W.H.O.
• Caramella’s “booze-up” started when she drank a bottle of penicillin mixture medicine at her home in Victoria Park-grove, Bramley, Leeds.1969 December 22, “Caramella, 2 Gets Tiddly on Medicine”, in Daily Sketch, London, →OCLC, page 20, column 3. From the entry Caramella
• The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are 'mistreated with penicillin.1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry mistreat
• The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are mistreated with penicillin.1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry treponeme
• Penicillin was found to be actively spirocheticidal in vitro against the Reiter, Kazan, Nichols, and Noguchi strains of so called S. pallida, and a strain of mouth spirochetes.1944, H Eagle, AD Musselman, “The spirocheticidal action of penicillin in vitro and its temperature coefficient”, in Journal of…. From the entry spirocheticidal

Meaning of penicillin

1. noun Any of a group of narrow-spectrum antibiotics obtained from Penicillium molds or synthesized, that have a beta-lactam structure and are active against gram-positive bacteria and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases.
2. noun A blue mold of the genus Penicillium that produces penicillin.

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How do you use penicillin in a sentence?

Penicillin is used as a noun. For example: “The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.”

What is a short sentence with penicillin?

“That was years before penicillin, of course.”

What does penicillin mean?

Penicillin means any of a group of narrow-spectrum antibiotics obtained from Penicillium molds or synthesized, that have a beta-lactam structure and are active against gram-positive bacteria and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases.