CHLORTETRACYCLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chlortetracycline mean? 

• CHLORTETRACYCLINE (noun)
  The noun CHLORTETRACYCLINE has 1 sense:

1. a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trade name Aureomycin) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases

  Familiarity information: CHLORTETRACYCLINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHLORTETRACYCLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A yellow crystalline antibiotic (trade name Aureomycin) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Aureomycin; chlortetracycline

Hypernyms ("chlortetracycline" is a kind of...):

antibiotic; antibiotic drug (a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections)

 Context examples 

Chlortetracycline hydrochloride is bacteriostatic and inhibits bacterial protein synthesis by binding to the 30S ribosomal subunit, thereby preventing the addition of amino acids to the growing peptide chain.

(Chlortetracycline Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

For the nursery phase of the study, one group of piglets was fed a diet containing the antibiotic chlortetracycline, another glutamine and a third group—used as experimental controls—nothing but feed ingredients.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)