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bleomycin

bleomycin noun: any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus.

Noun

bleomycin (countable and uncountable, plural bleomycins)

  1. Any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus.
    • Bleomycin, which could scar lungs without warning, was an antibiotic derived from a mold.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 206

Forms of bleomycin

pluralbleomycins

Origin of bleomycin

From [Term?] + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).

Questions about bleomycin

What does bleomycin mean?
Bleomycin means any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus.
What part of speech is bleomycin?
Bleomycin is a noun.
What is the plural of bleomycin?
The plural of bleomycin is bleomycins.

Words near bleomycin in the dictionary

  1. blennorrhϾ
  2. blenny
  3. blens
  4. blent
  5. bleocin
  6. bleomycin
  7. bleomycine
  8. bleomycines
  9. bleomycins
  10. blep
  11. bleph

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