PENICILLIN G

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does penicillin G mean? 

• PENICILLIN G (noun)
  The noun PENICILLIN G has 1 sense:

1. the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics

  Familiarity information: PENICILLIN G used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENICILLIN G (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

benzylpenicillin; penicillin G

Hypernyms ("penicillin G" is a kind of...):

penicillin (any of various antibiotics obtained from Penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases)

 Context examples 

This species is nonsporulating, urease and catalase negative, weakly indole positive, ferments mannose and raffinose, is resistant to penicillin G and may appear gram variable due to staining difficulty.

(Clostridium clostridioforme, NCI Thesaurus)

The potassium salt form of penicillin G, a broad-spectrum penicillin antibiotic.

(Penicillin G Potassium, NCI Thesaurus)

The benethamine salt of penicillin G, a member of the penicillin antibiotic family with broad-spectrum bactericidal activity.

(Benethamine Penicillin, NCI Thesaurus)

The long-acting benzathine salt form of penicillin G, a broad-spectrum penicillin antibiotic.

(Penicillin G Benzathine, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is indole positive, but lipase, catalase, urease and nitrate negative, hydrolyzes esculin and gelatin, and is beta-lactamase positive thus resistant to penicillin G, vancomycin, ceftizoxime, cefotetan.

(Bacteroides nordii, NCI Thesaurus)

The procaine salt form of penicillin G, a broad-spectrum, beta-lactam, naturally occurring penicillin antibiotic with antibacterial activity.

(Penicillin G Procaine, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is oxidase negative, fermentative, susceptible to ampicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, cefepime, ofloxacin, gentamicin, carbenicillin, and amikacin but resistant to cephalothin, penicillin G, and vancomycin.

(Ewingella americana, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole positive, catalase negative, hydrolyzes esculin, is resistant to penicillin G, produces large amounts of succinate from glucose, does not ferment melezitose or cellobiose, and reduces resazurin, but not neutral red.

(Bacteroides stercoris, NCI Thesaurus)

A lyophilized preparation of a low-virulence strain (SU) of Streptococcus pyogenes (S. hemolyticus), inactivated by heating with penicillin G. It has been proposed as a noncytotoxic antineoplastic agent because of its immune system-stimulating activity.

(Picibanil, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)