noun
- An antibiotic drug of the lincosamide class, used to treat bacterial infections caused by gram-positive bacteria and some anaerobes.
Usage: medical/pharmaceutical term; often used in veterinary medicine as well as human medicine
Examples
- The doctor prescribed lincomycin to treat the patient's severe streptococcal infection.
- Lincomycin is effective against certain anaerobic bacteria that cause abdominal infections.
- The antibiotic lincomycin works by inhibiting bacterial protein synthesis.
- Veterinarians sometimes use lincomycin to treat infections in livestock.
- Patients allergic to penicillin may be given lincomycin as an alternative.