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oxytetracycline

noun · 1 sense

a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections

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hydroxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, terramycin

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