clindamycin

American  

[klin-duh-mahy-sin] / ˌklɪn dəˈmaɪ sɪn /

noun

Pharmacology.

1. a toxic semisynthetic antibiotic, C 18 H 33 ClN 2 O 5 S, used to treat serious infections chiefly due to various anaerobic bacteria, especially Bacteroides.

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Etymology

Origin of clindamycin

1965–70; by contraction and rearrangement of chloro-deoxylincomycin an alternate name, equivalent to chloro- ² + deoxy- + lincomycin an antibiotic produced by Streptomyces lincolnensis; -mycin

Example Sentences

The antibiotics facing export limits are tinidazole, metronidazole, chloramphenicol, erythromycin salts, neomycin, clindamycin salts and ornidazole.

From New York Times

He cited the steroid cream clobetasol, a topical antibiotic; clindamycin, an antibiotic; and the flu treatment oseltamivir, the generic of Tamiflu.

From New York Times

Clindamycin, for example, raises the risk of a C. difficile infection by destroying the good gut bacteria that keeps harmful ones at bay.

From Washington Post

Fluoroquinolones are also most implicated in the rampant, difficult-to-cure infection called C. difficile, along with an earlier antibiotic, clindamycin.

From New York Times

Q: I was given a prescription for clindamycin when a thorn was removed from my finger.

From Seattle Times