| 单词 | oxford unit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOxford unit Oxford unit n. Pharmacology (now historical) a unit of penicillin dosage originally adopted at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in the University of Oxford (see quot. 1942); cf. penicillin unit n. at penicillin n. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antibiotics > [noun] > penicillin > unit of Oxford unit1942 penicillin unit1943 1942 H. W. Florey & M. Jennings in Brit. Jrnl. Exper. Pathol. 13 122 For those using the dilution method it may be stated that the ‘Oxford unit’ is that amount of penicillin which when dissolved in 50 ml. of meat extract broth just inhibits completely the growth of the test strain of Staphylococcus aureus. 1948 H. N. G. Wright & M. L. Montag Textbk. Pharmacol. & Therapeutics (ed. 4) xxxiii. 548 For the treatment of mild to moderately severe infections daily dosages of 80,000 to 120,000 Oxford units are sufficient. 1952 W. T. Salter Textbk. Pharmacol. xlix. 1084/1 The new international unit and the old Oxford unit are very close. 2004 Daily Tel. 7 Jan. 25/2 He devised a new assay method that allowed the activity of a sample of penicillin to be measured precisely, in what became known as ‘Oxford units’. < as lemmas |
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