tetracycline Definition
tetra·cy·cline (te′trə sī′klin, -klēn′)
tetracycline Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: The disease can be fatal but responds well to antibiotic therapy using tetracyclines if given early enough.
- include: Foul brood disease must be treated with antibiotics including tetracycline and ampicillin.
- take: If you need an operation, tell your doctor or dentist you are taking tetracycline.
- stain: Bleaching, if successful, can take longer on tetracycline stained teeth.
- modify: Mechanisms of action of chemically modified tetracyclines in bone resorption and formation.
- call: This medicine contains the active ingredient tetracycline hydrochloride, which belongs to a group of antibiotics called the tetracyclines.
Adjective modifier
- topical: However, topical tetracycline must be used every day for four to six weeks to be effective.
- other: Minocycline has more adverse effects than other tetracyclines [ BNF 43, 2002 ] .
- antibiotic: The recombinase is placed under the control of a promoter that responds to an external chemical, say, the antibiotic tetracycline.
- oral: This usually involves a topical antibiotic cream, such as metronidazole, or oral tetracycline.
- e.g.: This is particularly worrying, as many drugs used to treat fish are also used in human medicine, e.g. tetracycline and chloramphenicol.
Modifies a noun
- ointment: Tetracycline eye ointment used twice a day for six weeks, gets rid of the infection.
- antibiotic: Tetracycline antibiotics are not given to pregnant women; women who are breastfeeding; or children under 12 years of age.
- resistance: Yamamoto T, Nair G and Takeda Y. Emergence of tetracycline resistance due to a multiple drug resistance plasmid in Vibrio cholerae 0139.
- eye: Tetracycline eye ointment used twice a day for six weeks, gets rid of the infection.
- hydrochloride: This medicine contains the active ingredient tetracycline hydrochloride, which belongs to a group of antibiotics called the tetracyclines.
- tablet: If you already suffer from SLE ( systemic lupus erythematosus ) tetracycline tablets may make your condition worse.
Preposition: in
treatment: In one small trial guggul produced encouraging results when compared to the antibiotic tetracycline in the treatment of acne 6.
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