clindamycin

clindamycin
/klin'deuh muy"sin/, n. Pharm.
a toxic semisynthetic antibiotic, C18H33ClN2O5S, used to treat serious infections chiefly due to various anaerobic bacteria, esp. Bacteroides.
[1965-70; by contr. and rearrangement of chloro-deoxylincomycin an alternate name, equiv. to CHLORO-2 + DEOXY- + lincomycin an antibiotic produced by Streptomyces lincolnensis; see -MYCIN]

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