cephalosporin
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Etymology
From translingual Cephalosporium (now Acremonium), a genus of fungi, + -in.
Pronunciation
Noun
cephalosporin (plural cephalosporins)
- Any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from Acremonium fungi, having a cepham structure.
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 63:
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
antibiotic derived from Acremonium fungi
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