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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

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  • noun A sulfonamide antibiotic that works by halting the production of folic acid inside the bacterial cell, commonly used to treat urinary tract infections.

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  • noun a sulfa drug used in treating meningitis and pneumonia and other infections

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Examples

  • 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.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • 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.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • 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.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • 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.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • 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.

    SFGate: Top News Stories By KATHY MATHESON 2011

  • 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.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • 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.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • If not for counseling I wouldn't have known the doc didn't mean to write for sulfadiazine, that he really wanted sulfasalazine.

    Rant Alert: Attention, Pharmacists 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • 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.

    Question ;Microdyne 2004

  • Dosage for sulfadiazine, sulfisoxazole, sulfadimidine, or triple sulfa (200 mg./kg./day): - tablets of 500 mg., or a mixture with 500 mg. in 5 ml.

    Chapter 31 1993

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