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Terramycin

Terramycin

1 7.7
A yellow antibiotic medicine made from soil bacteria to treat infections
  • noun
  • /ˌtɛrəˈmaɪsɪn/
  • Specialized
: Terramicina
  • Patients with rickettsial diseases might be treated with Terramycin.

Examples

  • The veterinarian recommended Terramycin for my dog's pneumonia.

  • Then there are appy-stan strips, fumidil B, terramycin, and methol.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Doctors often prescribe Terramycin to treat severe bacterial infections.

Synonyms

hydroxytetracycline
vsTerramycin
  • Specialized
9.4

A yellow medicine that kills bacteria and treats infections

is the trademarked brand name for the same antibiotic

Surface Forms

Terramycin singular
Terramycins plural

Morphology

Terramycin = terra (opaque) = terra + mycin

Although the form combines 'terra' and the antibiotic-forming element '-mycin', the trademark denotes a specific drug and its meaning is not predictable to average learners from those parts.

Etymology

Terramycin comes from the Latin root terra, meaning 'earth', because it was first made from a germ found in soil, and the ending -mycin is a common part of antibiotic names like streptomycin that shows it comes from microbes. So, Terramycin is an antibiotic originally from the earth and is used to fight bacterial infections.