Cefoperazone

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A particular cephalosporin antibiotic. uncountable
  2. 2
    a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections wordnet

Etymology

From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + -o- + (pi)peraz(in)one.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.