Amoxicillin / Clavulanate

Augmentin · Beta-lactam

Generic
amoxicillin / clavulanate
Brand
Augmentin
Class
Beta-lactam
Say it
a-mox-i-SIL-in

What technicians need to know

GI side effects

Commonly mispronounced

"AM-ox-uh-sill-in"

The -cillin pattern

Amoxicillin / Clavulanate ends in -cillin, which marks a penicillin antibiotic — used for infection. Learning the suffix families turns roughly 200 separate drugs into about 20 patterns you can reason from. See all the families.

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