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synonyms for penicillin

  • amoxicillin
  • ampicillin
  • erythromycin
  • streptomycin
  • sulfonamide
  • tetracycline
  • sulfa drug
  • wonder drug
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How to use penicillin in a sentence

When Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin in 1928, which led to the creation of the first antibiotic that became widely used in the 1940s and after, humans got an evolutionary advantage over bacteria.
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The mold was producing the raw version of penicillin, which after a decade of further research was turned into the first modern antibiotic.
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The new medicines, notably penicillin, eradicated pathogens and bacterial infections far more quickly than sour milk products, which replenished the body’s acidophilus bacteria, helping balance the microbes in the gut.
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He plays Harry Lime, a man who, spoiler alert, sells fake penicillin in postwar Austria.
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He said he’d had earlier reactions to penicillin, the paper reported.
EVERYTHING TO KNOW ABOUT ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO COVID VACCINESKAREN YUANDECEMBER 31, 2020FORTUNE
It would be interesting to replicate this study in … participants with confirmed penicillin allergy.
PENICILLIN ALLERGIES MAY BE LINKED TO ONE IMMUNE SYSTEM GENEJEANNE ERDMANNNOVEMBER 9, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
And in no time, penicillin was in mass production, saving untold thousands of lives.
BEAR TRAPALAN EDWARD NOURSE
So far, he'd been lucky with penicillin, but each time he used it with grave doubts of its action on the Mars-adapted patients.
BADGE OF INFAMYLESTER DEL REY
Bags of fertilizer can be put on display, as can vials of penicillin, and jars of herbicide.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINES IN THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGYJOHN T. SCHLEBECKER
The effect of penicillin and certain sulfa drugs on the intracellular bacteroids of the cockroach.
THE BIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS OF COCKROACHESLOUIS M. ROTH
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO PENICILLIN

  • amoxicillin
  • ampicillin
  • erythromycin
  • penicillin
  • streptomycin
  • sulfa drug
  • sulfonamide
  • tetracycline
  • wonder drug
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.