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mitomycin

mitomycin noun: any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.

Noun

mitomycin (countable and uncountable, plural mitomycins)

  1. Any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.

Forms of mitomycin

pluralmitomycins

Origin of mitomycin

From mito- (“nucleotoxic agent”) + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).

Questions about mitomycin

What does mitomycin mean?
Mitomycin means any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.
What part of speech is mitomycin?
Mitomycin is a noun.
What is the plural of mitomycin?
The plural of mitomycin is mitomycins.

Words near mitomycin in the dictionary

  1. mitokorozemes
  2. mitolactol
  3. mitome
  4. mitomorphological
  5. mitomorphology
  6. mitomycin
  7. mitomycins
  8. mitonafide
  9. mitonuclear
  10. mitophagic
  11. mitophagosomal

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