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noun Pharmacology.

any of a group of drugs closely related in chemical structure to sulfanilamide, having a bacteriostatic rather than a bacteriocidal effect: used in the treatment of various wounds, burns, and infections.

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Also called sulfa.

Origin of sulfa drug

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby sulfa drug

Suleiman I, sulf-, sulfa, sulfadiazine, sulfadimidine, sulfa drug, sulfamethazine, sulfamethoxazole, Sulfamylon, sulfanilamide, sulfanilic acid

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How to use sulfa drug in a sentence

A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel?
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He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.
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And so the same creeping rot of the rule of law that the administration has inflicted on immigration now bedevils our drug laws.
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“They know there are drug spots,” said Wanda Williams, who was out for a walk with her son.
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But green Chartreuse unhappily is not innocent; it is more than a spirit, it is a powerful drug.
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Five years later he was drawing a large salary, and at the age of thirty he had opened a retail drug store of his own.
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Each cachet contained three decigrams of malourea, the insidious drug notorious under its trade name of Veronal.
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Then the drug was coaxed between the stricken man's teeth, and presently he opened his eyes once more.
The Weight of the Crown|Fred M. White
Rashid, the attendant, knew all Kazmah's clients, and with the box or flask he gave them a quantity of the required drug.
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British Dictionary definitions for sulfa drug

sulfa drug

/ (ˈsʌlfə) /

noun

any of a group of sulfonamide compounds that inhibit the activity of bacteria and are used in medicine to treat bacterial infections

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Medical definitions for sulfa drug

sulfa drug

Any of a group of synthetic organic compounds, derived chiefly from sulfanilamide, chemically similar to PABA and capable of inhibiting bacterial growth and activity by interfering with the metabolic processes in bacteria that require PABA.sulfonamide

Scientific definitions for sulfa drug

sulfa drug

[ sŭl′fə ]

See under sulfonamide.

sulfa drug

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