sulfapyridine

[ suhl-fuh-pir-i-deen, -din ]

noun

, Pharmacology.

1. a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sulfapyridine¹

sulfa(nilamide) + pyridine

Example Sentences

Sulfapyridine is the new cure used most successfully for: 1.

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Sulfapyridine, one of the 1,000 relatives of sulfanilamide, acts on all 32 types of pneumonia.

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First used in England last year by Pathologist Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby of London's Middlesex Hospital, the drug was given a seven-month workout by conservative experimenters in hospitals all over the U. S. In the first large-scale U. S. clinical report on sulfapyridine, published last month, Dr. Harrison Fitzgerald Flippin and associates of Philadelphia cautiously announced that the drug reduced pneumonia mortality from about 25% to 4%.

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Sulfapyridine is made in 0.5-gram, yellowish-white tablets, which can be crushed in milk or fruit juices and given in small doses every few hours.

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In other cases, sulfapyridine, like sulfanilamide, may produce a dangerous decrease in the number of red blood corpuscles.

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