Definition of "ciprofloxacin" [ciprofloxacin]

• A semisynthetic analogue of fluoroquinolone that is administered orally and has a broad spectrum of antibiotic activity. (noun)

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• "Kohane and colleagues tested their prototype lens with an antibiotic called ciprofloxacin, which is commonly used to treat eye infections."
• "I should say that Ari Fleischer started off the briefing by announcing that the United States has worked out an arrangement with the Bayer company, the makers of ciprofloxacin, which is the antibiotic being given to most of the people who either were exposed to anthrax or who might have been exposed to anthrax."
• "Researchers were recently stunned to discover that 100 pounds of a powerful antibiotic called ciprofloxacin was being dumped into a local stream But that's not all: The same waterway contained an astonishing 21 pharmaceutical chemicals reports the"