Tendon rupture BBW; aux labels: "Avoid prolonged sun exposure"; "Take 2 hours before or 2 hours after antacids, sucralfate, iron, multivitamins, or dairy" (calcium/dairy chelation is a fluoroquinolone class effect)
Commonly mispronounced
"lev-OH-flox-uh-sin"
The -floxacin pattern
Levofloxacin ends in -floxacin, which marks a fluoroquinolone 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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