cephalosporin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From translingual Cephalosporium (now Acremonium), a genus of fungi, + -in.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.
Translations[edit]
antibiotic derived from Acremonium fungi
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