sulfanilamide

IPA: sˈʌɫfʌnˈɪɫʌmˈideɪ

(pharmacology) Any of a class of amino substituted aromatic sulfonamides that are used as antifungal antibiotics; but especially the parent compound 4-aminobenzenesulfonamide

Examples of "sulfanilamide" in Sentences

And f is apparently winning in sulfa drugs, sulfanilamide, etc.
Pharmaceutical regulation is driven by horror stories like the sulfanilamide elixir and thalidomide.
As an interne, I had not heard of sulfanilamide or penicillin; in my own specialty the anti-psychotic drugs or electro-convulsive therapy had not been introduced.
Briefly, 50 µL organ homogenates were incubated with an equal volume of the Griess reagent (1% sulfanilamide, 0. 1% naphthyl ethylenediamine dihydrochloride, 2. 5%
Antibiotics were first discovered in the early 1900's when a drug called sulfanilamide was found to protect people from fatal bacterial infections such as pneumococcus.
The result was that we had an inordinately high number of crashes as time went on, and sulfanilamide an early antibiotic could be bought on the streets of Kunming while Chinese troops in the field were dying of infection.
Sulfa drugs had burst onto the medical scene in 1936, when Franklin Roosevelt, the president’s son, had been cured of a streptococcus infection in those days, strep infections were potentially fatal by a timely injection of sulfanilamide.
Examples include: severe toxicity from the use of arsenic to treat syphilis deaths from a solvent (ethylene glycol) used in sulfanilamide preparations (one of the first antibiotics) thousands of children born with severe birth defects resulting from pregnant women using thalidomide, an anti-nausea medicine