Medical Term:

cephalosporin

Pronunciation: sef′ă-lō-spōr′in

Definition: Antibiotic produced by a Cephalosporium, but after the antibiotic was discovered the name Cephalosporium was changed to Acremonium.

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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.

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