A first-generation cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections.
From 'cephalosporin' + '-idine' (a chemical suffix). The '-idine' ending indicates a nitrogen-containing organic compound, common in pharmaceutical naming.
Cephaloridine was one of the earliest cephalosporin antibiotics developed in the 1960s—its name directly connects it to the cephalosporium fungus from which all cephalosporins are derived, showing how drug names trace their origins.
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