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demeclocycline

[ dem-uh-kloh-sahy-kleen ]

noun

, Pharmacology.
  1. a broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 21 H 21 ClN 2 O 8 , derived from a mutant strain of the bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens: used against a wide range of susceptible microorganisms.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of demeclocycline1

Contraction and rearrangement of 7-chloro-6-demethyltetracycline, an alternate name

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