oxacillin in English
noun
1
an antibiotic drug made by chemical modification of penicillin and used to treat bacterial infections.
Beta-lactam antibiotics include methicillin and other more common antibiotics such as oxacillin , penicillin and amoxicillin.
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1. MICs of ureidopenicillins, carbenicillin, oxacillin, and cloxacillin were drastically reduced by the inactivation of Acrab, whereas those of the earlier cephalosporins were affected mostly
2. Other work in our lab has shown that honey can make MRSA more sensitive to antibiotics such as oxacillin -- effectively reversing antibiotic resistance.
3. (Fosfonet Sodium Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus) The Anhydrous form of the sodium salt of oxacillin, a semisynthetic penicillinase-resistant and acid-stable penicillin with antibacterial activity.