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mithramycin

/ˌmɪθ.ɹəˈmaɪ.sɪn/

mithramycin is the UK form of plicamycin.

Meaning of plicamycin

Noun

plicamycin (uncountable)

  1. An antibiotic C₅₂H₇₆O₂₄ with antineoplastic activity which is produced by three bacteria of the genus Streptomyces (Streptomyces argillaceus, Streptomyces tanashiensis, and Streptomyces plicatus), acts by inhibiting DNA transcription and replication, and is administered intravenously especially in the treatment of malignant tumors of the testes or in the treatment of hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria associated with advanced neoplastic disease.

Forms of mithramycin

pluralmithramycins

Origin of mithramycin

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

Words formed from mithramycin

Questions about mithramycin

What is mithramycin the UK form of?
Mithramycin is the UK form of plicamycin.
How do you pronounce mithramycin?
Mithramycin is pronounced /ˌmɪθ.ɹəˈmaɪ.sɪn/.

Words near mithramycin in the dictionary

  1. Mithraized
  2. Mithraizes
  3. Mithraizing
  4. mithralog
  5. mithralogs
  6. mithramycin
  7. mithramycins
  8. Mithras
  9. Mithrasmas
  10. Mithratic
  11. mithridate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mithramycin (page history and authors); plicamycin (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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