Definition of "cephem" []

• Any of several antibiotics including the cephalosporins and cephamycins (cephams) (noun)

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• "Takeda originally filed a patent application disclosing certain cephem compounds and the process for making those compounds in Japan in 1974, and in the U.S. in 1975."