A semisynthetic penicillin having a broader antibacterial spectrum of action that than of penicillin G. It is effective against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria and used to treatgonorrhea and infections of the intestinal, urinary, and respiratory tracts.
The ampicillin transfer via plasmid was successful in creating cells that were formerly killed by ampicillin.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)