Chloromycetin (Noun)
Meaning
An oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever).
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The doctor prescribed chloromycetin to treat the patient's severe case of typhoid fever.
- Chloromycetin was one of the first oral antibiotics to be widely used for treating serious bacterial infections.
- Due to its potential side effects, chloromycetin is usually reserved for treating life-threatening infections that are resistant to other antibiotics.
- The patient was given chloromycetin to combat the bacterial infection that had spread to her bloodstream.
- In the 1950s, chloromycetin was hailed as a breakthrough in the treatment of typhoid fever and other serious bacterial infections.