Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of organic sulfur compounds containing the radical SO2NH2 and including the sulfa drugs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Any
amide of asulfonic acid RS(=O)2NR'2. - noun pharmacology Any of a group of
antibiotics ; asulfa drug .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA
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Examples
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The 2011 version turns out to be resistant to eight classes of antibiotics, including penicillin, streptomycin and sulfonamide.
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The 2011 version turns out to be resistant to eight classes of antibiotics, including penicillin, streptomycin and sulfonamide.
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She was not convinced the drug was to blame, but she agreed to authorize a different prescription—a sulfonamide, a drug class that has been on the market even longer than penicillin.
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She was not convinced the drug was to blame, but she agreed to authorize a different prescription—a sulfonamide, a drug class that has been on the market even longer than penicillin.
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She was not convinced the drug was to blame, but she agreed to authorize a different prescription—a sulfonamide, a drug class that has been on the market even longer than penicillin.
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It turned out I had a violent allergic reaction to this sulfonamide drug.
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I removed the loose fragments and elevated the depressed ones, filled the thing full of sulfonamide and sewed him up tight.
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I removed the loose fragments and elevated the depressed ones, filled the thing full of sulfonamide and sewed him up tight.
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Ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfonamide have been used successfully in the treatment of infections caused by chloramphenicol-resistant strains.
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The factors that may have been responsible were, first, sulfonamide and penicillin for infection; second, ergometrine use to reduce postpartum hemorrhage; third, universal blood transfusion; and fourth, much better cooperation and better medical education and so on.
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