CIPROFLOXACIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ciprofloxacin mean? 

• CIPROFLOXACIN (noun)
  The noun CIPROFLOXACIN has 1 sense:

1. an oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract or urinary tract or bones or joints

  Familiarity information: CIPROFLOXACIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIPROFLOXACIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract or urinary tract or bones or joints

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Cipro; ciprofloxacin

Hypernyms ("ciprofloxacin" is a kind of...):

antibiotic; antibiotic drug (a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections)

 Context examples 

The hydrochloride salt form of ciprofloxacin, a fluoroquinolone related to nalidixic acid with antibacterial activity.

(Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Ciprofloxacin binds to and inhibits bacterial DNA gyrase, an enzyme essential for DNA replication.

(Ciprofloxacin, NCI Thesaurus)

Ciprofloxacin is a type of fluoroquinolone.

(Ciprofloxacin, NCI Dictionary)

Both contained the antibiotic ciprofloxacin and chemical permeation enhancers, which help the drug get across the eardrum into the middle ear.

(Developing novel ear infection treatments, NIH)

Moreover, the genomes of the high antibiotic use group contained genes for resistance to antibiotics typically not given to newborns, such as ciprofloxacin and chloramphenicol.

(Prolonged antibiotic treatment may alter preterm infants’ microbiome, National Institutes of Health)

This species is acid-fast, rapidly growing, catalase, urease and Tween 80 hydrolysis positive, and tellurite reductase, iron uptake, and arylsulfatase (14 days) negative, and is susceptible to ciprofloxacin.

(Mycobacterium thermoresistibile, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers observed larvae of zebrafish — zebrafish share many anatomical similarities with humans and other vertebrates — with 3D microscopy as they were exposed to concentrations of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin at levels comparable to that often found in environmental samples.

(Impacts of low-dose exposure to antibiotics unveiled in zebrafish gut, National Science Foundation)

Also called ciprofloxacin.

(Cipro, NCI Dictionary)

Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride exerts its bactericidal effect by interfering with the bacterial DNA gyrase, thereby inhibiting the DNA synthesis and preventing bacterial cell growth.

(Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)