carbenicillin

[ kahr-ben-uh-sil-in ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a semisynthetic penicillin, C17H16N2Na2O6S, used against certain bacteria, especially those involved in urinary tract infections.

Origin of carbenicillin

1
First recorded in 1965–70; carb- + (p)enicillin

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