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tetracycline

/te-truh-sahy-kleen, -klin/US // ˌtɛ trəˈsaɪ klin, -klɪn //UK // (ˌtɛtrəˈsaɪklaɪn, -klɪn) //

四环素,四环素类,四环素类药物,霉素

Related Words

penicillin盘尼西林,青霉素,青春痘,潘氏疗法amoxicillin阿莫西林,阿摩西林,亚莫西林erythromycin红霉素,紅黴素,紅霉素,番茄红素streptomycin链霉素,连霉素,斯里兰卡的链霉素,霉素ampicillin氨苄西林,氨苄青霉素,氨比西林,氨苯砜sulfonamide磺胺,磺酰亚胺,磺胺类药物,磺酰胺wonder drug神奇的药物,奇药,神奇药物,奇效药sulfa drug磺胺类药物,磺胺药,磺胺药物,磺胺类药

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pharmacology.

    • : an antibiotic, C22H24H2O8, derived from chlortetracycline, used in medicine to treat a broad variety of infections.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inantibiotic
Synonyms
penicillin盘尼西林,青霉素,青春痘,潘氏疗法amoxicillin阿莫西林,阿摩西林,亚莫西林ampicillin氨苄西林,氨苄青霉素,氨比西林,氨苯砜erythromycin红霉素,紅黴素,紅霉素,番茄红素streptomycin链霉素,连霉素,斯里兰卡的链霉素,霉素sulfonamide磺胺,磺酰亚胺,磺胺类药物,磺酰胺sulfa drug磺胺类药物,磺胺药,磺胺药物,磺胺类药wonder drug神奇的药物,奇药,神奇药物,奇效药

Examples

  • The distance matters because pest controllers want to keep the free-flying GM mosquitoes away from outdoor sources of the antibiotic tetracycline.

  • The mosquitoes are raised in a laboratory in the presence of tetracycline, an antibiotic that prevents the added gene from activating.

  • Gorman emphasized to Undark that the EPA and other regulators found no risk in using tetracycline in breeding their genetically-altered mosquitoes.

  • At Oxitec’s laboratory in the UK, the company genetically engineers the mosquitoes, giving the insects the “self-limiting” gene that makes the females dependent on the antibiotic tetracycline.

  • I didn't spot it until I found them wolfing down the tetracycline capsules in my samples case.

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