Clindamycin

Cleocin · Lincosamide

Generic
clindamycin
Brand
Cleocin
Class
Lincosamide
Say it
klin-da-MYE-sin

What technicians need to know

C. difficile risk

Commonly mispronounced

"KLIN-duh-mi-sin"

The -mycin pattern

Clindamycin ends in -mycin, which marks a macrolide or aminoglycoside 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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