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ampicillin
This term refers to a specific pharmaceutical agent within the penicillin family. It carries a clinical and sterile connotation, typically appearing in medical records, prescriptions, and pharmacological texts rather than casual conversation.
As a mass noun representing a chemical substance, it is treated as uncountable. It does not have a plural form in standard medical usage; instead, practitioners use partitive constructions such as a dose of ampicillin or a course of ampicillin to quantify the medication.
Meanings
Examples
The doctor prescribed a course of ampicillin to treat the respiratory infection.
Do you have any known allergies to penicillin or ampicillin?
The patient was administered ampicillin intravenously to combat the sepsis.
I need to check if this strain of bacteria is susceptible to ampicillin.
Ampicillin is often used in combination with sulbactam to broaden its efficacy.
She felt a slight rash after taking the first dose of ampicillin.
The lab technician added ampicillin to the agar plate to select for plasmid-bearing cells.
Wait, did the chart say ampicillin or amoxicillin?