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clindamycin

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clin⋅da⋅my⋅cin

[klin-duh-mahy-sin]
–noun Pharmacology.
a toxic semisynthetic antibiotic, C18H33ClN2O5S, used to treat serious infections chiefly due to various anaerobic bacteria, esp. Bacteroides.

Origin:
1965–70; by contr. and rearrangement of chloro-deoxylincomycin an alternate name, equiv. to chloro- 2 + deoxy- + lincomycin an antibiotic produced by Streptomyces lincolnensis; see -mycin
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Main Entry: clin·da·my·cin
Pronunciation: "klin-d&-'mIs-&n
Function: noun
: an antibioticC18H33ClN2O5S derived from and used similarly to lincomycin
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