penicillinize
English
editEtymology
editFrom penicillin + -ize.
Verb
editpenicillinize (third-person singular simple present penicillinizes, present participle penicillinizing, simple past and past participle penicillinized)
- (transitive, medicine) To treat (someone) with penicillin.
- 1964, William Sydney Charles Copeman, editor, Textbook of the Rheumatic Diseases, Edinurgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., page 150:
- These specific measures are primarily directed against streptococcal infection and are discussed in the section on after-care since they are particularly applicable to the convalescent case. It is obviously both undesirable and impossible to penicillinize everyone with a sore throat.
- (transitive, medicine) To add penicillin to (an erythrocyte etc.).