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penicillin

noun as in antibiotic

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When Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin in 1928, which led to the creation of the first antibiotic that became widely used in the 1940s and after, humans got an evolutionary advantage over bacteria.

The mold was producing the raw version of penicillin, which after a decade of further research was turned into the first modern antibiotic.

The new medicines, notably penicillin, eradicated pathogens and bacterial infections far more quickly than sour milk products, which replenished the body’s acidophilus bacteria, helping balance the microbes in the gut.

He plays Harry Lime, a man who, spoiler alert, sells fake penicillin in postwar Austria.

From Ozy

He said he’d had earlier reactions to penicillin, the paper reported.

From Fortune

He liked to quote a psychiatrist who described MDMA as “penicillin for the soul.”

The teenage schoolgirl died from an allergic reaction to penicillin last June during the botched operation.

The pursuit of animal enhancement arose from studies made at the dawn of the penicillin era.

Unfortunately, Penicillin Envy can make it difficult to achieve those lesser innovations.

It strikes me that medical research is haunted by the memory of penicillin, and the other antibiotics that immediately followed.

And in no time, penicillin was in mass production, saving untold thousands of lives.

So far, he'd been lucky with penicillin, but each time he used it with grave doubts of its action on the Mars-adapted patients.

Bags of fertilizer can be put on display, as can vials of penicillin, and jars of herbicide.

The effect of penicillin and certain sulfa drugs on the intracellular bacteroids of the cockroach.

No one would call a doctor who uniformly administers penicillin – a good doctor and, yet, this, exactly is what the IMF is doing.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to penicillin, such as: amoxicillin, ampicillin, erythromycin, streptomycin, sulfonamide, and tetracycline.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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