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calicheamicins

calicheamicins is the plural of calicheamicin.

Meaning of calicheamicin

Noun

calicheamicin (plural calicheamicins)

  1. Any of a class of enediyne antibiotics derived from the bacterium Micromonospora echinospora, extremely toxic to all living cells and used in targeted therapy against cancer.

Questions about calicheamicins

What is calicheamicins the plural of?
Calicheamicins is the plural of calicheamicin.

Words near calicheamicins in the dictionary

  1. calicectasis
  2. calicene
  3. calices
  4. caliche
  5. calicheamicin
  6. calicheamicins
  7. caliches
  8. calichon
  9. calichons
  10. caliciaceous
  11. caliciform

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