Associations to the word «Cephalosporin»

Wiktionary

CEPHALOSPORIN, noun. Any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from Cephalosporium fungi, having a cepham structure.

Dictionary definition

CEPHALOSPORIN, noun. One of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope