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Kafocin

Kafocin

9.9
A medicine used in the past to treat infections caused by bacteria that is no longer common
  • noun
  • Archaic
: kafocina
  • The hospital ceased using Kafocin after safer antibiotics became available.

Examples

  • Because of resistance and side effects, Kafocin is rarely prescribed today.

  • Some older medical textbooks still mention Kafocin as a treatment option.

  • The doctor prescribed Kafocin for the infection.

  • Many doctors no longer use Kafocin in their treatments.

  • Due to its side effects, Kafocin is seldom found in modern medical practices.

  • In the past, Kafocin was a common choice among doctors for bacterial infections.

  • Some pharmacists remember Kafocin as an antibiotic that was once widely used.

Synonyms

cephaloglycin
vsKafocin
  • Archaic
9.9

An old antibiotic like cephalosporins that is now rarely used

is the same medication but known by a different name and no longer used

Surface Forms

Kafocin singular
Kafocins plural

Etymology

Kafocin looks like many older antibiotic names because it ends in -cin, a common ending for drugs from microbes, and its first part sounds like cephalosporin, a well-known early antibiotic family. So a helpful way to remember Kafocin is as the name of an older antibiotic, which fits that it was a former medicine no longer commonly used.