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clindamycin

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(klin′də mī′sin)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
clin•da•my•cin  (klin′də mī′sin),USA pronunciation n. [Pharm.]
  1. Drugsa toxic semisynthetic antibiotic, C18H33ClN2O5S, used to treat serious infections chiefly due to various anaerobic bacteria, esp. Bacteroides.
  • 1965–70; by contraction and rearrangement of chloro-deoxylincomycin an alternate name, equivalent. to chloro-2 + deoxy- + lincomycin an antibiotic produced by Streptomyces lincolnensis; see -mycin

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