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n. - A polypeptide antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms.

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Usage examples (15)
  • Hooray for 10-day antibiotic treatments and bacitracin.
  • I put the patient's hand on the clerk's desk and squirted some bacitracin onto the gauze.
  • · After each washing, paint the sores with gentian violet or spread on an antibiotic cream containing bacitracin such as Polysporin.
  • "Wait -- I've got just the thing for that," I said, reaching for my bacitracin, gauze and tape the interns have well-stocked cargo pants.
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