cephalosporin

Other forms of cephalosporin

plural

cephalosporins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cephalosporin

What does cephalosporin mean?

cephalosporin means "one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity".

How many syllables are in cephalosporin?

cephalosporin has 5 syllables: cep-ha-lo-spo-rin. The stress falls on "lo". In IPA it is /ˌsɛfəˈlɔˌspɔɹɪn/.

What is another word for cephalosporin?

Close synonyms include Mefoxin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cephalosporin a common word?

cephalosporin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.