Definition of "sulfadiazine" []

• A sulfa drug, C10H10N4O2S, used in the treatment of toxoplasmosis and other infections. (noun)

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• "Harris attributed her healing to copious amounts of silver sulfadiazine, which is also used to treat human burns, and painkillers that helped maintain her appetite."
• "If not for counseling I wouldn't have known the doc didn't mean to write for sulfadiazine, that he really wanted sulfasalazine."
• "Here's some quick thoughts, I'd suggest anybody who's interested should spend some time doing their own homework (note - research does not include any website where a product is being sold). silver - high (percentage-range) concentrations of metallic silver, inorganic silver compounds such as silver nitrate, and organic silver compounds such as silver sulfadiazine are used medically as topical (direct contact treatment) antimicrobial treatments."