Dictionaries › English

pefloxacin

The English word “pefloxacin” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A synthetic chemotherapeutic agent used to treat severe and life-threatening bacterial infections.

Etymology

From (pi)pe(razine) + -floxacin (“nalidixic acid derivative”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “pefloxacin” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.