Ampicillin

Definition: Ampicillin

Ampicillin

Noun

1. Semisynthetic penicillin (trade names Principen and Polycillin and SK-Ampicillin).

Specialty Definitions: Ampicillin

Domain	Definitions
Health	Semi-synthetic derivative of penicillin that functions as an orally active broad-spectrum antibiotic. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Ampicillin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Ampicillin (C₁₆H₁₈N₃O₄S ; CAS No.: 69-53-4) is an aminopenicillin and, as such, is a broad-spectrum antibiotic and has been used extensively to treat bacterial infections since 1961. It is suspected to cause certain types of cancer in humans and animals. Belonging to the group of beta-lactam antibiotics, ampicillin is able to penetrate Gram-negative bacteria. It inhibits the third and final stage of bacterial cell wall synthesis, which ultimately leads to cell lysis, so it belongs to a group of bactericidal antibiotics.

Ampicillin is often used in molecular biology as a test for the uptake of genes (e.g., by plasmids) by bacteria (e.g., E. coli). A gene that is to be inserted into a bacterium is coupled to a gene coding for an ampicillin resistance (in E. coli, usually the bla gene, coding for β-lactamase). The treated bacteria are then grown on a medium containing ampicillin. Only those bacteria that carry the ampicillin resistance and, therefore, the gene can survive.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ampicillin."

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Synonyms: Ampicillin

Synonyms: Polycillin (n), Principen (n), SK-Ampicillin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ampicillin

Specialty definitions using "ampicillin": Ampicillin Resistance ♦ Pivampicillin ♦ Talampicillin. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ampicillin

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Three commonly prescribed antibiotics are ampicillin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and ciprofloxacin. (references)
		ETEC is frequently resistant to common antibiotics, including trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and ampicillin. (references)
		Antibiotics (tetracycline, ampicillin, erythromycin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole combinations) fight infection. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Ampicillin

"Ampicillin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ampicillin" is used about 15 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%	15	90,616

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

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Expression: Ampicillin

Expression using "ampicillin": Ampicillin Resistance. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "ampicillin": SK-Ampicillin.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ampicillin

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
ampicillin	133
ampicillin antibiotic	5
ampicillin pregnancy	4
ampicillin side effects	4
ampicillin trihydrate	3
ampicillin and sulbactam	2
ampicillin sodium sodium sulbactam	2
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Modern Translations: Ampicillin

Language		Translations for "ampicillin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		氨苄�'霉� . (various references)

Danish		ampicillin. (various references)

Dutch		ampicilline. (various references)

Finnish		ampisilliini. (various references)

French		ampicilline. (various references)

German		Ampicillin. (various references)

Greek		αμπικιλλίνη. (various references)

Italian		ampicillina. (various references)

Pig Latin		ampicillinay

Portuguese		ampiciline. (various references)

Russian		ампициллин. (various references)

Spanish		ampicilina. (various references)

Swedish		ampicillin. (various references)
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Derivations: Ampicillin

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

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Anagrams: Ampicillin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-p"
	-2 letters: inimical.
	-3 letters: allicin, liminal.
	-4 letters: aminic, caplin, clinal, inclip, limina, limnic, pianic, plical.
	-5 letters: acini, amici, amnic, animi, campi, cilia, claim, clamp, iliac, ilial, lapin, lilac, liman, limpa, linac, lipin, maill, malic, manic, milia, milpa, panic, pical, plain, plica.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-p"
	+1 letter: ampicillins.
	+3 letters: penicillamine.
	+4 letters: multiplication, penicillamines.
	+5 letters: multiplications.
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