Tetracycline

Definition: Tetracycline

Tetracycline

Noun

1. An antibiotic (trade name Achromycin) derived from microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces and used broadly to treat infections.

Specialty Definitions: Tetracycline

Domain	Definitions
Health	An antibiotic originally produced by Streptomyces viridifaciens, but used mostly in synthetic form. It is an inhibitor of aminoacyl-tRNA binding during protein synthesis. (references)
Medicine	The tetracyclines:chlortetracycline, demeclocycline, doxycycline, oxytetracycline, methacycline, minocycline, tetracycline. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Tetracycline

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
Ter	English	Tetracycline resistance	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Tetracycline

Synonym: Achromycin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tetracycline

English words defined with "tetracycline": Declomycin, demeclocycline hydrochloride, doxycycline ♦ Minocin, minocycline ♦ Vibramycin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tetracycline": Antibiotics, Tetracycline ♦ Demeclocycline ♦ Methacycline ♦ Rolitetracycline ♦ Tetracycline Resistance. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Tetracycline

Domain	Title
Books	Tetracycline manufacturing processes (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Tetracycline

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Shown is a culture medium and the hands of a technician. In this recombinant DNA technology, the thymidine kinase gene of herpes simplex virus is being cloned in bacteria. Those bacteria that have incorporated the gene are no longer resistant to the antibiotic tetracycline. By growing the bacteria on media that includes tetracycline, the colonies that don't grow are selected (circled in slide). These bacteria have incorporated the gene that is being studied.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).
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Non-Fiction Usage: Tetracycline

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The antibiotic tetracycline may be prescribed. (references)
		Ehrlichiosis is treated with a tetracycline antibiotic, usually doxycycline. (references)
		Calcium may also interfere with absorption of certain medications, such as tetracycline. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tetracycline

"Tetracycline" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Tetracycline" is used about 9 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)	66.67%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	22.22%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

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

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Expressions: Tetracycline

Expressions using "tetracycline": Tetracycline Hydrochloride ♦ Tetracycline Resistance. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tetracycline

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
tetracycline	625
tetracycline acne	38
tetracycline side effects	35
tetracycline stain	6
tetracycline hydrochloride	6
birth control tetracycline	6
tetracycline use	6
tetracycline dosage	5
buy tetracycline	5
cancer tetracycline	5
tetracycline antibiotic	5
tetracycline tooth	4
tetracycline hcl	4
affect side tetracycline	3
allergic tetracycline	3
tetracycline online	3
pregnancy tetracycline	3
staining tetracycline	3
information tetracycline	2
order tetracycline	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tetracycline

Language		Translations for "tetracycline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		tetracyclin. (various references)

Dutch		tetracycline. (various references)

Finnish		tetrasykliini. (various references)

French		tétracycline, cycline. (various references)

German		Tetrazykline, Tetracyclin. (various references)

Italian		tetraciclina. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		テキスト終結 (end of text, rough texture, technetium, technetronic, technical, technical center, technical foul, technical knockout, technical point, technical term, technician, Technicolor, technics, technique, techno cut, techno lady, techno mart, techno sound, technocracy, technocrat, technoeconomics, technologies, technology, technology art, technology assessment, technology gap, technology transfer, technomist, technonationalism, technopeasant, technophobia, technopolis, techno-pop, techno-science, techno-stress, technostructure, teddy, teddy bear, Tektronics, tenant, tennis, tennis court, tennis elbow, tennis-wear, tenor, tenor sax, test, test campaign, test case, test driver, test marketing, test pattern, test pilot, test rider, testament, tester, testing, test-mail, testosterone, test-set, Tetoron, tetrachloroethylene, Tetrapack, Tetrapod, Tetris, tetrodotoxin, texture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		テトラサイクリン . (various references)

Pig Latin		etracyclinetay

Portuguese		tetraciclina. (various references)

Russian		тетрациклин. (various references)

Spanish		tetraciclina, tetraci/clina. (various references)

Swedish		tetracyklin. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tetracycline

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tetracycline": tetracyclines. (additional references)
	Words ending with "tetracycline": chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline. (additional references)
	Words containing "tetracycline": chlortetracyclines, oxytetracyclines. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tetracycline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tetracyclines. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tetracycline

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-n-r-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: acetylenic, centrality, reticently.
	-3 letters: certainly, certainty, interlace, reticency, ternately.
	-4 letters: acentric, acetylic, calycine, canceler, canticle, celeriac, celerity, centiare, clarence, clarinet, clattery, creatine, elaterin, electric, elenctic, encircle, entailer, entirely, entirety, entreaty, eternity, increate, interact, interlay, iterance, laterite, licencer, lientery, literacy, literate, nettlier, raclette, reaccent, recently, reliance, reticent, tenacity, tentacle, tractile, treenail, tricycle.
	-5 letters: accrete, acrylic, aliener, anticly, arenite, ariette, article, atelier, calcine, calcite, carline, cattery, cattier, cattily, cenacle, centare, centile, central, centric, ceratin, certain, circlet, citrate, cittern, clarity, clatter, clayier, cleaner, creatin, crenate, cyanite, cynical, eccrine, ectatic, enteral, enteric, enticer, entitle, entreat, erectly, eternal, inertly, inlayer, intreat, irately, iterant, iterate, larceny, latency, latrine, lattice, layette, lectern, licence, licente, lineate, littery, nattier, nattily, nectary, nettier, nettler, nictate, nitrate, ratline, ratteen, reality, recency, recital, reclean, recline, recycle, reenact, reliant, reticle, retinae, retinal, retitle, riantly, tacitly, tacrine, tactile, tantric, tearily, teleran, tentier, ternate, tertial, tertian, tetanic, tiercel, trainee, treacle, treacly, trenail, tritely.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-n-r-t-t-y"
	+1 letter: tetracyclines.
	+3 letters: oxytetracycline.
	+4 letters: electrotonically, oxytetracyclines.
	+5 letters: chlortetracycline, electroanalytical.
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