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penicillin
/ˌpenɪˈsɪlɪn/
nounMedicine
Penicillium mantarlarından elde edilen ve bakteriyel enfeksiyonları tedavi etmek için yaygın olarak kullanılan bir antibiyotik.
An antibiotic drug derived from Penicillium fungi, widely used to treat bacterial infections.
- The doctor prescribed penicillin to treat the bacterial infection.
- Some people are allergic to penicillin and need alternative antibiotics.
- Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928.
- The widespread agricultural use of penicillin in livestock has raised concerns among epidemiologists about accelerating antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations.
- Medical historians credit the mass production of penicillin during World War II with saving countless soldiers from infections that would have been fatal in previous conflicts.
- Pharmaceutical researchers are investigating synthetic modifications to penicillin molecules to overcome resistance mechanisms developed by pathogenic bacteria.