doxycycline

doxycycline
/dok'see suy"kleen, -klin/, n. Pharm.
a synthetic analog of a broad-spectrum antibiotic tetracycline drug, C22H24N2O8, used against a wide range of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
[contr. of deoxytetracycline]

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