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cephalosporin

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/kɛfələʊˈspɔəɹɪn/

Definition of cephalosporin

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noun

  1. Any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from Acremonium fungi, having a cepham structure.
    “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.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Translingual Cephalosporium Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in English cephalosporin From translingual Cephalosporium (now Acremonium), a genus of fungi, + -in.

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