penicilloic acid
Biochemistry
noun
Any of a group of acids which are dicarboxylic acid derivatives of thiazolidine and are produced when penicillins are hydrolysed (as by a penicillinase) and the carbon–nitrogen bond of the lactam ring is broken.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Science.
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