benzathine penicillin

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benzathine penicillin (uncountable)

  1. (pharmacology) Either of two narrow-spectrum antibiotics.
    • 1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
      The standard dosage of 2.4 million units of benzathine [sic] penicillin prescribed for syphilis resolved symptoms of the disease, and physicians assumed they were killing the organism.

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