oxytetracycline hydrochloride

1. 1.

   a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections

   SynonymsoxytetracyclinehydroxytetracyclineTerramycin

   Broaderantibiotic

   trademark

Questions about oxytetracycline hydrochloride

What does oxytetracycline hydrochloride mean?

oxytetracycline hydrochloride means "a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections".

What is another word for oxytetracycline hydrochloride?

Close synonyms include oxytetracycline, hydroxytetracycline, Terramycin. 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 oxytetracycline hydrochloride a common word?

oxytetracycline hydrochloride 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.