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Macrolide vs Spiramycin - What's the difference?

macrolide | spiramycin |

As nouns the difference between macrolide and spiramycin

is that macrolide is (organic chemistry) a macrocyclic lactone with a ring of at least twelve atoms while spiramycin is a macrolide antibiotic used to treat toxoplasmosis.

macrolide

English

(wikipedia macrolide)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) a macrocyclic lactone with a ring of at least twelve atoms
  • (medicine) Any of a group of antibiotics having this structure

    • Hyponyms

    * azithromycin * clarithromycin * erythromycin * tacrolimus

    Anagrams

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    spiramycin

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia spiramycin)
  • A macrolide antibiotic used to treat toxoplasmosis.