Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cephalosporin

1 sense of cephalosporin

Sense 1
cephalosporin, Mefoxin -- (one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity)
       => antibiotic, antibiotic drug -- (a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs")