Erythromycin

Definition: Erythromycin

Erythromycin

Noun

1. An antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus; effective against many Gram-positive bacteria and some Gram-negative.

Specialty Definitions: Erythromycin

Domain	Definitions
Health	A bacteriostatic antibiotic substance produced by Streptomyces erythreus. Erythromycin A is considered its major active component. In sensitive organisms, it inhibits protein synthesis by binding to 50S ribosomal subunits. This binding process inhibits peptidyl transferase activity and interferes with translocation of amino acids during translation and assembly of proteins. (references)
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Synonyms: Erythromycin

Synonyms: E-Mycin (n), Erythrocin (n), Ethril (n), Ilosone (n), Pediamycin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Erythromycin

English words defined with "erythromycin": Streptomyces erythreus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "erythromycin": Azithromycin ♦ Clarithromycin ♦ Erythromycin Estolate, Erythromycin Ethylsuccinate ♦ Roxithromycin ♦ Troleandomycin. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Erythromycin

Domain	Title
Books	Informing patients about drugs--analysis of alternative designs for erythromycin leaflets (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Erythromycin

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Patients allergic to penicillin are given erythromycin. (references)
		Other drugs are available for patients unable to tolerate erythromycin. (references)
		Erythromycin is the antibiotic currently recommended for treating persons with Legionnaires' disease. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Erythromycin

"Erythromycin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Erythromycin" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	11	106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Erythromycin

Expressions using "erythromycin": Erythromycin Estolate ♦ Erythromycin Ethylsuccinate. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Erythromycin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
erythromycin	348	erythromycin ointment	4
erythromycin side effects	13	erythromycin thiocyanate	3
erythromycin acne	9	erythromycin dosage	3
erythromycin ointment ophthalmic	9	erythromycin es	3
erythromycin topical	8	erythromycin ointment opthalmic	3
erythromycin ethylsuccinate	6	erythromycin gastro need patient use	3
erythromycin ophthalmic	6	erythromycin solution topical	3
erythromycin use	6	erythromycin base	3
antibiotic erythromycin	4	erythromycin structure	2
erythromycin gel	4	allergy erythromycin	2
erythromycin pregnancy	4	erythromycin gastroparesis	2
erythromycin stearate	4	erythromycin interaction omeprazole	2
		blunting erythromycin resistant	2
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Modern Translations: Erythromycin

Language		Translations for "erythromycin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		红霉� . (various references)

Danish		erythromycin. (various references)

Dutch		erytromycine. (various references)

Finnish		erytromysiini. (various references)

French		érythromycine. (various references)

German		Erythromycin. (various references)

Italian		eritromicina. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		エリキシル剤 (Educational Resources Information Center, El Dorado, El Nino, El Salvador, elixir, Elysium, erbium, erg, ergonomics, ERIC, erythropoietin, Jerusalem, L size, large size, LP record, LSD). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		エリスロマイシン . (various references)

Pig Latin		erythromycinay

Portuguese		eritromicina (escalade), eritema (erythema, erythematous eruption, skin erythema). (various references)

Spanish		eritromicina. (various references)

Swedish		erytromycin. (various references)
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Derivations: Erythromycin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "erythromycin": erythromycins. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Erythromycin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-r-t-y-y"
	-4 letters: chromite, enormity, erythron, hermitry, intercom, rhetoric, thermion, thornier, torchier, trichome, tricorne.
	-5 letters: centimo, chimney, chorine, cithern, cithren, cointer, cornier, heritor, heronry, hornier, horrent, incomer, mortice, mothery, mothier, myrrhic, mythier, norther, notcher, noticer, rectory, thermic, thymier, thymine, tonemic, tricorn, tyronic.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-r-t-y-y"
	+1 letter: erythromycins.
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