Word.ws English Dictionary

sulbactam

US/sʌlˈbækˌtæm/

sulbactam noun: a beta-lactamase inhibitor that is usually administered in the form of its sodium salt C₈H₁₀NNaO₅S in combination with a beta-lactam antibiotic (as ampicillin).

sulbactam: a beta-lactamase inhibitor that is usually administered in the form of its sodium salt C₈H₁₀NNaO₅S...
Image: Fvasconcellos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

sulbactam (uncountable)

  1. A beta-lactamase inhibitor that is usually administered in the form of its sodium salt C₈H₁₀NNaO₅S in combination with a beta-lactam antibiotic (as ampicillin).

Origin of sulbactam

From sul(fonyl) + -bactam (“β-lactamase inhibitor”).

Words formed from sulbactam

Questions about sulbactam

What does sulbactam mean?
Sulbactam means a beta-lactamase inhibitor that is usually administered in the form of its sodium salt C₈H₁₀NNaO₅S in combination with a beta-lactam antibiotic (as ampicillin).
What part of speech is sulbactam?
Sulbactam is a noun.
How do you pronounce sulbactam?
Sulbactam is pronounced /sʌlˈbækˌtæm/ (US).

Words near sulbactam in the dictionary

  1. Sulawesians
  2. Sulayman
  3. Sulaymaniyah
  4. Sulaymaniyya
  5. sulazepam
  6. sulbactam
  7. sulbactame
  8. sulbenicillin
  9. sulbenox
  10. sulbentine
  11. sulbutiamine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sulbactam (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sulbactam.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sulbactam. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.