Pefloxacin

noun

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

Etymology

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

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