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gentimicin

gentimicin is the misspelling of gentamicin.

Meaning of gentamicin

Noun

gentamicin (countable and uncountable, plural gentamicins)

  1. A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic mixture, derived from an actinomycete (Micromonospora echinospora), extensively used as the sulfate in treating severe systemic bacterial infections (as of the urinary tract); (3R,4R,5R)-2-{[(1S,2S,3R,4S,6R)-4,6-diamino-3-{[(2R,3R,6S)-3-amino-6-[(1R)-1-(methylamino)ethyl]oxan-2-yl]oxy}-2-hydroxycyclohexyl]oxy}-5-methyl-4-(methylamino)oxane-3,5-diol.

Questions about gentimicin

What is gentimicin the misspelling of?
Gentimicin is the misspelling of gentamicin.

Words near gentimicin in the dictionary

  1. gentilizes
  2. gentilizing
  3. gentilizings
  4. gentilly
  5. gentilshommes
  6. gentimicin
  7. gentiobiase
  8. gentiobiases
  9. gentiobiose
  10. gentiobioside
  11. gentiobiosides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gentimicin (page history and authors); gentamicin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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