Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any of a family of antibiotics composed of imidazole heterocycles with a nitro group; often used to combat anaerobic infections

Origin

Egyptian jmnbor.

Egyptian jmnbor.

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Forms

plural: nitroimidazoles
Singularnitroimidazole
Pluralnitroimidazoles

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Word family

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