noun
- A broad-spectrum antibiotic of the cephalosporin class, used to treat bacterial infections.
Usage: medical; pharmaceutical
Examples
- The doctor prescribed cephalothin to treat the patient's respiratory infection.
- Cephalothin is effective against many gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
- The hospital uses cephalothin as a first-line antibiotic for surgical prophylaxis.
- Patients allergic to penicillin may also react to cephalothin due to structural similarity.
- Cephalothin was one of the first cephalosporin antibiotics introduced for clinical use.