penicillinize

English

Etymology

From penicillin +‎ -ize.

Verb

penicillinize (third-person singular simple present penicillinizes, present participle penicillinizing, simple past and past participle penicillinized)

1. (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.

2. (transitive, medicine) To add penicillin to (an erythrocyte etc.).

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