cephalosporin

[sef-uh-loh-spawr-in, -spohr-]

noun Pharmacology.

any of a group of widely used broad-spectrum antibiotics, originally isolated as a product of fermentation from the fungus Cephalosporium acremonium.

Origin of cephalosporin

1950–55; < New Latin Cephalospor(ium) the genus (see cephalo-, -spore, -ium) + -in²

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British Dictionary definitions for cephalosporin

cephalosporin

noun

any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium

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cephalosporin in Medicine

cephalosporin

[sĕf-ə-lə-spôr′ĭn]

Any of various broad-spectrum antibiotics, closely related to the penicillins, that were originally derived from the fungus Cephalosporium acremonium and are used to treat bacterial infections.