oxacillin

[ ok-suh-sil-in ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a semisynthetic penicillin, C19H19N3O5S, used in the treatment of serious staphylococcal infections.

Origin of oxacillin

1
1960–65; (is)oxa(zole), a component of its chemical name + (peni)cillin

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